Sister Adele reminded bishop he was responsible for souls

As one discovers when perusing the stories of those canonized and blessed by the Church, lives blessed by an extraordinary number of holy intercession are often lives bearing much suffering, tests and trials_circumstances which not only strengthen those receiving such intercession emotionally, but also spiritually. Sister Adele`s life proved to observe that row of bravery and struggle.

Once the story of the shadow was out, and pilgrimages and religious celebrations began to hold place, avaricious and pleasure-seeking individuals took the chance to work the crowds who came to the Chapel. A kind of vendors set up business outside the Chapel grounds, over which Adele had no control, serving but to corrupt the gravity of the spread of the Premise and the Church. Such dealings threw a bad light on Adele and fueled the opponent of about of the clergy who believed her narrative a myth. Those who noted these irregularities pointed them out to the foremost Bishop of Green Bay, Joseph Melcher. Despite the want of open information and a perfect understanding of the matter, Bishop Melcher placed an interdiction on the Chapel. Sister Adele was refused the Sacraments and threatened with excommunication should she proceed to assure her account of the apparition. On one occasion, when Adele attended Sunday Mass with the children at a church a mile west of the Chapel, Adele found the pews closed against her. Adele heard Mass kneeling in the aisle. Later, Bishop Melcher reconsidered and distinct to see the Chapel, accompanied by two physicians to test Sister Adele`s sanity. However, after protests by the vendors around the Chapel, the Bishop changed his head on the visit, and commanded Sister Adele to end the train and the Chapel, and get him the keys to both. After accomplishing the good return home of her students, and afterwards buying an acre of ground about the Chapel to make a place to keep her commissioned duty to Our Lady, Sister Adele obeyed the Bishop`s command, reminding him that he would be responsible for the souls lost due to the want of proper religious instruction. Impressed by her sincerity and zeal[to say the least!], the Bishop returned the keys to Sister Adele in place to keep her mission.