Warfhuizen As A Marian Pilgrimage Site
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Most visitors to the chapel specifically come to venerate Mary. This began after a lifesize processional statue, the 'Sorrowful mother of Warfhuizen', was placed in the chapel. The statue had such an appeal to faithful from the Netherlands and abroad, that the chapel became a pilgrimage site.
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The enclosure-grill
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The great cross, a recent copy after the Italian sculptor Pietro Tacca
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