Onze-Lieve-Vrouwe ter Eik

The chapel of Our Lady of the Oak in the pilgrimage church of Saint Lambert in Meerveldhoven is a sanctuary in the Netherlands. In many places, a miraculous image of Mary associated with a tree it once hung from is venerated, but only in Meerveldhoven did they leave the tree standing and build the church right over it. At the end of the 13th century, a resident of the then village of Mirfeld must have found a statue of Mary in an oak tree just outside the village. He took it home and gave it a place of honor, but the next morning it appeared to have returned to the...