Our Lady of the Pottery
Baroque church shrine to a thirteenth-century limestone Madonna credited with healing miracles.
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This guide to Our Lady of the Pottery in Bruges follows a vow made in thirteen oh four, when Bruges women prayed for their husbands and sons marching off to the Battle of Pevelenberg and promised the church's statue an annual candle if they came home safe. It traces the small limestone Madonna, carved around twelve seventy, credited ever since with healing claims recorded in stained glass, tapestries and an old illustrated booklet the sisters kept as evidence. You'll hear about the hospital the sisters ran here from the twelve sixties, tending pilgrims and the sick. Come on the fifteenth of August and you can watch twelve girls in white still carrying that candle down the street.
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