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Gommelberg Chapel

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Gommelberg Chapel

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    June 12, 2024

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    The creation of the Gommelberg Chapel is thanks to a vow that the Waldsassen pastor made with the believers in October 1836. There was a fear that the cholera that …
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    September 10, 2018

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    For fear of the cholera that had broken out in Eger, Pastor Hausn invited the parishioners for the October 28, 1836 to a petition to the small chapel on the Gommelberg near Pleußen.
    He exhorted repentance by saying that if God, through the intercession of His divine, painful Mother, would remove Mary from this horrible disease, ... let us rebuild a sizeable chapel. "Indeed, cholera disappeared so quickly, The peninsula was able to breathe a sigh of relief, and on July 15, 1838, the church was inaugurated.
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    February 3, 2023

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    Location: Mitterteich, Tirschenreuth, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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