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Sacred Heart Statue of Assent

Sacred Heart Statue of Assent

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Sacred Heart Statue of Assent

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Location: Bekkevoort, Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

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February 25, 2024

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The story is well-known: Jesus looks out over Assent from the hill of Prinsenbos, where only bombs fell in the fields during the World War. It was an initiative of the Assent monastery and the Reverend Uydens. The local community cooperated. For example, the primary school children gathered the iron sandstone for the foundation.

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February 26, 2024

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The statue consists of white painted concrete, the plinth was built in Maasmechelen marlstone and the foundation consists of iron sandstone from the region, collected by the students of the local school. At eleven meters it would be the tallest statue of its genre in Belgium.

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November 18, 2020

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The Heilig-Hartbeeld overlooks Assent (Bekkevoort) from the ridge of the Prinsenbos. The residents of Assent placed this image of Jesus Christ as a kind of thanksgiving, because the bombs of a heavy bombing during World War II did not fall on Assent but in the surrounding fields. The image is not protected.
(information source: ArcheoNet Flanders)

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Elevation 70 m

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Location: Bekkevoort, Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

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Sacred Heart Statue of Assent – Hollow Way with Cobblestones loop from Diest

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