Het mirakel van Amersfoort

In the storry about the tower, I told it was named after Maria, because of the Miracle that happened.
Now I will tell the storry about the miracle.

In the year 1444 a woman named "Geertgen Arents " from Nijkerk. Was on her way to Amersfoort to become a nun. She brought all her stuff with her, and it showed she was living a poor life.

This is whats left of it, in the glas vile the statue itself.

One of her belongings was a cheap statue of Maria.
Embarrassed by the idea, what the nuns would think about her statue. She decided to throw it in the water.

Then later a lady called "Margriet Albert Ghisen" got a vision, from Maria that told her to get the statue from the water under the ice. Margriet told the painter at whos house she was staying, about the vision. He told her that she was dreaming.

After the third time she got the vision, she went to the place and made a hole in the ice. There was the statue of Maria, untouched by the ica and the streaming of the water. Margriet took the statue home with her, and at christmas night she brought it to the chappel.



This storry atracted manny pelgrims, from far places. All these pelgrims gave a financially boost to Amersfoort and the chappel.

An anonymous painter, painted the storry in the 16th century. The picture shows Margriet getting the statue from the water, the city wall and in the background the tower, that is build from the profit the chappel made.

Not that manny people know about the storry anymore, but still every year in may a procession takes place. Starting at the tower and going to the place where the statue is found.