If you’re into churches and cemeteries, Assebroek is most definitely your place to be. The churches have a certain calming atmosphere around them which is worth a visit. The church of Ver-Assebroek is considered to be a place of pilgrimage. If you look around the church, you might be able to find a certain Maria figurine. But this is not just your average Maria figurine. This one has a story to it. The story goes like this: there’s a Christian man who’s a crewmember on a boat filled with Protestants. Every night the man would pray to his little Maria figurine, but the others laughed at him and threw his Maria overboard. The figurine did not sink, it kept following the boat. The crewmembers believed this had to be a sign of the devil and tried to threw the Christian man overboard, but when the captain saw this, he demanded for the figurine to be fished up. To this day, the little figurine has a special place in the church of Ver-Assebroek.
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