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Holy Cross Chapel
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Frank en Nancy 🇧🇪
September 23, 2021
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If you go up next to the cemetery (Lichtaartsesteenweg 111), you will come across the oldest Stations of the Cross in the country. The Stations of the Cross consist of the seven chapels of the Sorrows of Our Lady.
The large chapel, the Holy Cross Chapel, was built before 1534 and re-erected in 1841. The Chapel of the Entombment (fourteenth station) dates from 1761.
The large chapel, the Holy Cross Chapel, was built before 1534 and re-erected in 1841. The Chapel of the Entombment (fourteenth station) dates from 1761.
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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën
January 23, 2023
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On Kruisberg one finds a very picturesque Stations of the Cross. The idea originated from a 15th century friar who had made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and in 1461 imitated …
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