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Chapel of Sasput-Voogdij

Chapel of Sasput-Voogdij

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Chapel of Sasput-Voogdij

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Location: South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

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Katrien

May 16, 2022

This rectangular brick prayer house is located along the street side under two horse chestnut trees. It is covered with a tiled gable roof, on which a cross with a weathercock is implanted in the top. As is customary with churches, the building faces east. The white-brown painted door is decorated with a fantasy grille.

The current renovated chapel was erected in 1935 on behalf of and financed by the Vos family. The names of these donors are chiseled into a memorial stone on the facade. This wealthy family lived in an adjacent mud farm that was demolished around the 1970s. Previously, there was a wooden chapel on the same site, founded by the Vos family. That is why the now existing place of worship is still popularly called the "chapel of Giliske" (the man's name was Gilis Vos). The extraction of Gilis Vos and his wife, called Korverswinning, was close to the chapel, but has now been demolished. When Tuur Wolfs' farm was destroyed by fire in the same street, Gilis took Tuur and his sister into their home and also entertained them with the extraction. Since they also had no children, they adopted René Bloks as a child.

The chestnut trees flanking the building on the left and right date from the period of the wooden chapel. From a panoramic perspective, this highest point in Greater Hasselt offers a unique view of the surroundings, whose horizon extends to Borgloon and Tongeren in open weather. Even earlier in time there was a mud house of prayer on this site. The detailed plans of the primitive land register already mention it in 1842.

The chapel is dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes. Her image is central on the altar. In addition, the chapel is enriched with a number of statues of saints: Saint Anthony with the child Jesus, the Sacred Heart, Saint Roch and Saint Amand. The wooden statue of this last saint was brought from a pilgrimage to Stokrooie by a woman plagued by gout. The images of Mother Mary and the Sacred Heart are depicted on the floor. As in other shrines, the decorum of the interior is further enhanced by flowers and candlesticks.

In the month of May, the building was extra decorated by the many believers who came to pray there. During the Prague Spring of 1963, the population gathered there in prayer, for fear that the Russian communists would descend on our regions from the Eastern Bloc.

Elderly villagers claimed that will-o'-the-wisps were regularly seen in the area. Because the area is very swampy, the landscape was often shrouded in a low-hanging mist at dusk. Passers-by who looked back would see a twilight in which they thought they recognized ghosts. They therefore scrupulously avoided the vicinity of the chapel.

Source: hasel.be/kapel-vos-sasput-guardijstraat

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JakobusPilger

May 20, 2022

The Virgin Mary depicted and venerated here is that of Lourdes. This well-known Marian pilgrimage site is located in the French Pyrenees and is visited by a large number of people every year, including many sick people hoping for healing. The devotional image of the Mother of God has spread widely, not only in France, and believers have built Lourdes chapels and grottos everywhere.
The ecclesiastical memorial day "Our Lady of Lourdes" is on February 11th, this is the anniversary of the apparition of Mary (1858), when the Mother of God appeared to the 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous in a rock grotto not far from Lourdes. Bernadette later became a nun and died at the age of only 35. On December 8 (the feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary) 1933, she was canonized by Pope Pius XI.
The commemoration of the Lourdes Madonna is also World Day of the Sick.

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Elevation 130 m

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