National Shrine of Saint Philomena

National Shrine of Saint Philomena is a church at N565 County Rd A in Briggsville, WI 53920. It is one of 3 churches in Briggsville.

In the late 1940s a self-sacrificing priest, named Father I.C. Wiltzius, devoted his frail energy to calling the world to venerate a Virgin-Martyr known as Saint Philomena. It was through the efforts of Father Wiltzius that the Shrine to Saint Philomena was established.

N565 County Rd A, Briggsville, WI, 53920

Phone: (608) 742-2200 · Website: https://www.saintphilomenashrine.org/

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The community around National Shrine of Saint Philomena

It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Obesity: 38.2%
  • Social Isolation: 30.2%
  • Depression: 23.5%
  • Diabetes: 13.2%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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