The focal point of the pilgrimage to Kevelaer is a small 17th-century devotional print of Our Lady of Luxembourg, the "Consoler of the Afflicted". In 1642 the merchant Hendrik Busman placed this picture in the first road chapel of Kevelaer, after Mary herself allegedly told him to build her a little shrine. Before long the first miracle healings were reported and streams of pilgrims came to the site.
Explore this website to learn more about the shrine and its history, its Marian cult and its pilgrims, of which you may be(come) one yourself!
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