Madonna of Humility, Fra Angelico – The miraculous discovery of a statue 1444
GRIET ALBERT GHISEN – Paula Bär-Giese – sopraan
MARIA – Francis Evers – mezzosopraan
Hans Meijer – luit
Eva Lock – Geertgen Arents van der Nykercken
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The miraculous discovery of a statue of the Virgin and Child, when in 1444, a young woman Geertgen Arents from Nykercken came to the town of Amersfoort to enter the Agnieten-Convent. Before passing through the town gate [Camp poort], she took a plain figurine of the Virgin and Child from her belongings and threw it in the water, because she was embarrassed to show the humble work to the sisters at the convent. A few weeks later, another woman, Griet Albert Ghisen, had three successive visions in which she was instructed to go to the canal by the town gate to rescue the Virgin Mary from the water. When she arrived there, the woman saw the discarded figurine lying under the ice which covered the flowing water. She fished it out and took it home with her. After she had told her story to the priest, the statue was taken to the Church of Our Lady of Amersfoort. Subsequently, various miracles attracted numerous pilgrims. Unfortunately, little is left of the miraculous figurine, making it difficult to describe or date it accurately. From what remains one can deduce that it was a very simple statue made of pipe clay.
A c.1525 panel painting, made for the church of Our Lady in Amersfoort, shows the miraculous discovery of the statuette in 1444, but the painter added a church tower, which was not finished until 1470, financed by the pilgrimage revenues.
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