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Hendrik Busman, a merchant, knelt in prayer one day beside the wayside
shrine just outside of Kevelaer. Suddenly he heard a mysterious voice asking
him to build a little chapel on the spot. This occurrence was repeated
twice. In the same year Hendrik’s wife Mechel was offered to buy a picture
of Our Lady of Luxembourg. Shortly afterwards, Mechel had a vision during
the night: in a clear light, she saw a little chapel with the very same
picture inside. When Hendrik Busman learned of this, he hesitated no longer.
The little chapel was built in May 1642 and the image of mercy placed
inside. The first pilgrims came to Kevelaer that same day. An annual
tradition, said to date from the year 1733, is the walk from Bocholt to
Kevelaer. Men and women of all ages travel the 30 miles in one day. About a
thousand people take part in this pilgrimage every year.
This title is from the collection Pilgrimages of Europe.
Pilgrimages are as old as mankind. The mystical and spiritual nature of a
pilgrimage holds an eternal, mythic appeal to the imagination of many
people. Every year millions of pilgrims of all nationalities, young and old,
set out on these voyages of the soul. The twelve documentaries in the series
Pilgrimages of Europe are experiential journeys to some of the most sacred
routes and holy places throughout Christian Europe.
These half-hour documentaries, richly filmed, look at the spiritual,
cultural and historical background of twelve pilgrimage sites throughout
Europe. However, the people, the pilgrims themselves, are at the heart of
these stories – their purposes and desires, their motivations, and the great
sense of the holy and the sacred which they find on their journeys of faith.
LENGTH: 30 Minutes
ORDER CODE: JM20164V
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