In the month of May, the Church turns with special affection to the Blessed Virgin Mary. We crown her statues, pray her rosary with renewed devotion, and remember that she is not a distant figure but a Mother who draws near to us.... especially to those who feel small, less than adequate, or umequipped. That is exactly who she came to in 1859. Adele Brise was twenty-eight years old, a Belgian immigrant carving out a life in the dense Wisconsin wilderness. She was largely uneducated, blind in...