To contact Brittany's mother, Melissa Maraist:
Brittany was born on the anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun, October 13, 1991 to Rick and Melissa Maraist. Brittany’s two siblings pictured are Brett and Brooke Maraist.
"He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
Revelations 21:4
"And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am."
- John. 14:3
Brittany Maraist passed away at 8 years old. Confined. Bedridden. Victim Soul. Her life has not ended but has changed. Though she is so missed we know that her life in the fullness has just begun, in a place where joy is eternal and laughter resounds, there is no pain and love is the only law in the place that God prepared for her!
At A Tender 4 Months Everything Changed
Holding her at 3 months old, I reminisce to such a perfect moment of love and tenderness. Thinking I had a lifetime with her, but at 4 months old she developed bacterial meningitis and in 24 hours our lives drastically changed. It left her in a semi comatose state for the rest of her short life.
In the midst of turmoil, a "Guste" of God's wind came and brought a beautiful blessing for Brittany...
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Msgr. Robert Guste
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Shrine of Our Lady of Prompt Succor
New Orleans, Louisiana
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June 25, 1993, The Mir Group celebrates the 12th Anniversary Peace Mass honoring the Blessed Mother's alleged appearances in Medjugorje. Fr. Harold Cohen is blessing Brittany with a first Class Relic of St. Faustina. (St. Faustina declared a saint on April 30, 2000.)
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(Right image) (l to r) Brittany Maraist, Melissa Maraist, Fr. Clarence Waguespack, Mary Butrum and Barbara Cornes (Brittany's grandmother).
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Medjugorje
Bosnia - Herzegovina
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Medjugorje ("between the hills") has become well known in Bosnia-Hercegovina, and the world, because of six young people who claim to have seen visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Beginning on June 24, 1981, the Blessed Mother appeared to, and later told the visionaries, God sent her to our world to help us convert our hearts and lives back to Him. Our Lady's call is one of Peace, Love, Faith, Conversion, Prayer, and Fasting. We are each challenged to answer Our Lady's call to change our lives, and hearts back to God. The following links to 100+ documents of information, interviews, and testimonies provide a well rounded, and accurate account and perspective of one of the greatest events in modern history.
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May 1993
Before giving a talk to the pilgrims, he bestowed a blessing on Melissa and Brittany.
Brittany's pilgrimage group visits Fr. Jozo Zovko in Siroki Brijeg at the "Church of the Assumption." Fr. Jozo Zovko was the parish Priest in Medjugorje when the Apparitions began in 1981.
Before giving a talk to the pilgrims, he bestowed a blessing on Melissa and Brittany.
Brittany's pilgrimage group visits Fr. Jozo Zovko in Siroki Brijeg at the "Church of the Assumption." Fr. Jozo Zovko was the parish Priest in Medjugorje when the Apparitions began in 1981.
TWO Precious Gifts Brought to our home,
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Fr. Robert De Grandis+
They each placed their hand forward touching the folded Corporal. The next morning on October 5th, my 3-year-old daughter Brooke went into Brittany’s room to visit Paula, Brittany’s caregiver. Brooke starts telling Paula about an angel she saw all in white sitting on Brittany’s bed. Paula questioned Brooke and realized Brooke saw the angel when the Eucharistic Miracle was on Brittany. A Eucharistic Miracle is the actual, body and blood of Jesus Christ. Jesus is always accompanied by angels wherever He goes. If you ask my daughter Brooke about the miracle today, she will tell you she only remembers us talking about it.
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Annemariea Schmidt+ Prisoner of war... Survivor, Speaker, Mystic
Annemariea Schmidt grew up in a very devout Catholic family in Czechoslovakia. She speaks on her persecution at Auschwitz and on the Russian battlefront. Annemariea explains how her love for Christ grew through her astounding trials, and how she was led to see the hand of God working in them all. One gift God gave her was never to smell the stench of the World War II war camp again, and what follows her was the fragrance of roses that people witness. Everywhere she touched Brittany left the fragrance of roses. *https://www.lighthousecatholicmedia.org/store/title/to-hell-and-back-divine-love-and-the-cross-1 |
After a Eucharistic Procession, Melissa got in line to have Annemariea Schmidt pray with Brittany…
As they approached Annemariea, a lady presented Melissa and Brittany to asking her if she could pray with this baby. Annemariea said, "JESUS asked me to pray for this baby!!!" She then prayed over Brittany and said, "JESUS, heal this VICTIM soul!" She then turned to Melissa and said, "This baby is before the THRONE of GOD and praying for souls." She said, "As tiny as she is, she is praying BEFORE GOD FOR SOULS!!!"
A VICTIM SOUL is someone who has been chosen by God to undergo physical, and sometimes spiritual, suffering beyond that of normal human experience. The victim soul willingly accepts this unique and difficult mission of offering up his or her pains for the salvation of others.
As they approached Annemariea, a lady presented Melissa and Brittany to asking her if she could pray with this baby. Annemariea said, "JESUS asked me to pray for this baby!!!" She then prayed over Brittany and said, "JESUS, heal this VICTIM soul!" She then turned to Melissa and said, "This baby is before the THRONE of GOD and praying for souls." She said, "As tiny as she is, she is praying BEFORE GOD FOR SOULS!!!"
A VICTIM SOUL is someone who has been chosen by God to undergo physical, and sometimes spiritual, suffering beyond that of normal human experience. The victim soul willingly accepts this unique and difficult mission of offering up his or her pains for the salvation of others.
Apparition Hill
Brittany went with her mother Melissa and grandmother Barbara to Medjugorje. There she became ill with pneumonia, and thru grace and quick thinking her grandmother an RN, saved her life. Fr. Waguespack joined Melissa in prayer offering Brittany to God. (L - Stephan (pilgrim), Fr. Waguespack, Melissa & Brittany)
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As Abram offered Issac up at the sacrificial altar, Melissa offered up Brittany to God in faith and hope that she would be heal but resolved not her will but God's will be done.
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Little Brittany's Prayer Card
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Audio Radio Shows on Brittany
“Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord God, my God, is with you" - 1 Chronicles 28:20
Melissa Maraist and Anne Marie D’Abadie |
Melissa Maraist – A Mother’s Suffering |
*The painting is called ‘Butterflies, nothing in life ever dies, it only changes form.' The artist, Linda Schafer, painted the portrait for a family who through a great tragedy, lost their daughter, Ashley at only 14 years of age. Ashley Tutt was hit by a car while rollerblading in which she sustained fatal injuries.
The beautiful image resides at the home of Ashley's parents, Nanette and Kyng Tutt.
You can find more information about the artist, Linda Schafer, in the "Acadiana Profile, The Magazine of the Cajun Country, Vol. 18, No. 3, titled, "Are there Angels in our midst?"
The beautiful image resides at the home of Ashley's parents, Nanette and Kyng Tutt.
You can find more information about the artist, Linda Schafer, in the "Acadiana Profile, The Magazine of the Cajun Country, Vol. 18, No. 3, titled, "Are there Angels in our midst?"