#zoete moeder

I recently managed to travel home to the Netherlands, where I visited four Marian shrines. The first one was the shrine of the Sweet Mother of Den Bosch, a statue venerated since 1380.

The statue stands in the city’s cathedral of St John, where it is visited by hundreds of devotees every day. The statue was rescued from destruction during the Reformation, and was kept in Brussels for a few centuries. It returned to Den Bosch in 1853, where it once again became the focal point of devotion until this day.