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C. Specht 1697 Amersfoort

GA MET DE MUIS OVER HET PANEEL VOOR EEN UITVERGROTING

Van Sunte IORIAEN martelaer

SVnte IORIAEN die inden LATIJN GEORGIUS is geheten was een hertoge een

edel man geboren wt GRIEKEN wt den lande van CAPODOCIEN Ende hi

quam eens tijts vten lande van LIBIEN in eenre stat hiet SILENA. Ende bi

dier stat was een stelmeer dat vtermaten grote was ende daer was in een

vreselic drake die daer in scoel ende tfolc vanden lande quam daer

dicwijl tegen al gewapent om den draec te doden Mer altoos veriagede

hi tfolc ende dreefse binnen der stat ende so volchde hi na totten

můeren ende blies ende wispelde mitten stert ende mitten stanke sijns

adams vergaf hi menigen mensche die daer of sterf. LEES  MEER

SINT JORIS, SCHUTSPATROON VAN DE  OUD KATHOLIEKE PAROCHIE VAN DE H. GEORGIUS OP ‘T ZAND TE AMERSFOORT Joris legende uit ‘legende aurea’ handschrift UBA Amsterdam, hs VI B14 voor de Regulieren te Amersfoort ‘In den Birk’ 1438

The miraculous discovery of a statue of the Virgin and Child, when in 1444, a young woman Geertgen Arents from Nykercken came to the town of Amersfoort to enter the Agnieten-Convent. Before passing through the town gate [Camp poort], she took a plain figurine of the Virgin and Child from her belongings and threw it in the water, because she was embarrassed to show the humble work to the sisters at the convent. A few weeks later, another woman, Griet Albert Ghisen, had three successive visions in which she was instructed to go to the canal by the town gate to rescue the Virgin Mary from the water. When she arrived there, the woman saw the discarded figurine lying under the ice which covered the flowing water. She fished it out and took it home with her. After she had told her story to the priest, the statue was taken to the Church of Our Lady of Amersfoort. Subsequently, various miracles attracted numerous pilgrims. Unfortunately, little is left of the miraculous figurine, making it difficult to describe or date it accurately. From what remains one can deduce that it was a very simple statue made of pipe clay.

A c.1525 panel painting, made for the church of Our Lady in Amersfoort, shows the miraculous discovery of the statuette in 1444, but the painter added a church tower, which was not finished until 1470, financed by the pilgrimage revenues.

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