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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën
January 13, 2023
Hiking
Do you know the history of the small, old (Kontich) chapel? It goes back to a legend from Duffel in 1637, when a small, primitive statue of the Virgin Mary …
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Luc Van Geyte
January 16, 2022
Hiking
A stolen statue of the Virgin Mary was found in the Langbos in the 17th century. Years later, a first chapel was built on this site. This became a place of pilgrimage. The neighboring Lint parish hoped to get a share of it by building a second chapel on Lint's territory. Unfortunately for the parishioners, the railway was just being built. The border between Kontich and Lint was moved, so that both chapels came to be in Kontich territory.
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