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>>>In regard of their numbers and their staying together in Luxembourg settlements it was only a matter of time for the emigrants to transpose the cult of Our Lady of Luxembourg to the United States.
One of the early places of veneration is Dacada, on the border line of Ozaukee and Sheboygan counties, WI, where the Luxembourgers had their church since 1847, but for the marial feast they went as pilgrims to the shrine of St. Mary's in Lake Church, 6 miles away. However they wanted to have their own statue. Their wish became reality when in 1849 the widow Marguerite DEPIESSE emigrated from Messancy with her three sons. In the luggage she took on ship at Antwerp was a wooden statue of the Consoler of the Afflicted, which she concealed when during a heavy storm all passengers were requested to throw everything dispendable overboard. Grateful for the unexpected salvation she donated the statue to the St. Nicholas parish in Dacada, where it has been standing ever since.
Leopold, Perry County, IN, got its shrine after the Civil War. Three Perry County residents, native from Belgium, were imprisoned at the confederate prison of Andersonville, when they vowed should they survive, to travel to Europe for a replica of a statue of our Lady of Luxembourg, which, one of them, had seen there as a child. Lambert ROGIER went to Luxembourg in 1867 and upon his return enshrined it in St. Augustine church in Leopold. A marble replica can be seen in a small garden shrine near the church.
As the emigrants moved further west, traces of the cult of Our Lady of Consolation are also to be found there. The imminent arrival of a statue of the Consoler of the Afflicted in La Motte, IA in 1893 is qualified by Dubuque newspaperman GONNER as the first statue of the Consoler west of the Mississippi.
