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162859
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Postcards
Title
Maria Troosteres der Bedroefden
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Year
1994
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Inside the cathedral is a 17th-century statue of Maria Consolatrix Afflictorum (Maria Comforter of the Afflicted) that had originally stood in a chapel just outside the ramparts of the old city. This image would have helped the city during a plague epidemic. It is carried every year in the great Octave procession two weeks before Pentecost.

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