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A writer's club reunion in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where they grow apples and grapes developed by the University of Minnesota and fit their young with cheeseheads as soon as the fontanelle fuses. Nearby, in Belgian-settled Champion, there is a chapel marking the only church-approved Marian apparition in the United States. "Apparition soil" is sold across the street for $10 a jar and bone fragments from the 12 apostles are on display in the basement.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel — Title and Feast Day

Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid 13th century. They built among their hermitages a chapel which they dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, whom they conceived of in chivalric terms as the “Lady of the Place.”

The liturgical feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is celebrated on July 16. The solemn liturgical feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel probably was first celebrated in England in the later part of the 14th century. Its object was thanksgiving to Mary, the patroness of the Carmelite Order (“Brothers of the Virgin Mary”) for the benefits she had accorded to the order through its difficult early years.

The date chosen was July 17; on the European mainland this date conflicted with the feast of St. Alexis, requiring a shift to July 15, which remains the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel throughout the Catholic Church. The Latin poem “Flos Carmeli” (meaning “Flower of Carmel”) first appears as the sequence for this Mass.