Church of Alsemberg

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Since the middle of the 13th century, a Romanesque statue of Mary has been venerated in Alsemberg, which is said to have been donated to the parish by Sofia, wife of Duke Henry II of Brabant. Legend has it that the Virgin of the Queen of Hungary, Elisabeth of Thuringia, wanted her to build a church in Brabant, on the mountain where wormwood flourished. The Romanesque-Byzantine miraculous statue of the Mother Maiden, invoked as the "Star of the Sea", dates from around 1200 and is carved from Hungarian hornbeam. Princess Sofia, daughter of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary, who died in 1231, brought it to Alsemberg when she married Duke Henry in 1242.

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