MIRAKEL van AMERSFOORT 1444

MARIA Paula BärGiese soprano MARIA Francis Evers mezzo soprano Hans Meijer lute Geertgen Arents Eva Cornelisse The miraculous discovery of a statue of the Virgin and Child, when in spring 1444, a young woman Geertgen Arents from Nykercken came to the town of Amersfoort to enter the AgnietenConvent. 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. With Christmas, 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 mira