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Location: Dilsen-Stokkem, Maaseik, South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

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1. Chapel of Our Lady of Rest – Rotem Foot and Bicycle Ferry loop from Rotem

8.44km

02:08

10m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Rotem Foot and Bicycle Ferry – Wauwel bench loop from Elen

7.28km

01:50

10m

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Sint-Pieterskerk Elen – Chapel of Our Lady of Rest loop from Elen

3.91km

00:59

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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August 16, 2023

The chapel of Our Lady of Rest was built to worship Mary after, according to tradition, a statuette of the Blessed Virgin washed ashore after a flood. It shows how important the Maas and (the fear of) floods have always been here.

The statue, which washed up on a gravel bank in an old Maasarm, was thus still the tradition, found by a girl and then the chapel was built.

In 1706, worship took off when the owner of the leased farm to which the chapel belonged sold everything to the Crosiers of Maaseik (where a Crosier monastery used to be).

More and more believers came and the chapel quickly became too small. Around 1768 a new and larger one was built.

The pastor of Heppeneert, a hamlet of neighboring Maaseik, who was also a Crosier, hid the statue when he noticed that it would be destroyed together with the chapel in Elen during the French Revolution. The intention was to bring it back later, but that didn't happen. Around 1883 the statue was placed in the church of Heppeneert, which has since become a place of pilgrimage.

Nevertheless, the worship in the chapel of Elen is continued and a mass is celebrated on August 15.

There is a replica of the statue in the open chapel where candles can also be burned.

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August 16, 2023

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Elevation 80 m

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Location: Dilsen-Stokkem, Maaseik, South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

Chapel of Our Lady of Rest

1. Chapel of Our Lady of Rest – Rotem Foot and Bicycle Ferry loop from Rotem

2. Rotem Foot and Bicycle Ferry – Wauwel bench loop from Elen

3. Sint-Pieterskerk Elen – Chapel of Our Lady of Rest loop from Elen

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