Chapel Jezus-Eik

First of all thank you so much for all the visits, comments, stars and hearts for my 300th Blip. It even made the Spotlight, what a treat !

On our way to The Netherlands today we passed the Jezus-Eik church with its little chapels in the churchyard wall. Jezus-Eik (translated Jezus-Oak) or in French Notre-Dame au Bois (Our Lady of the Woods) used to be a place of pilgrimage after miraculous healings were reported after somebody hang a statue of Mary in an old oak in the middle of the Sonian Forest in 1637. Soon masses were held there and first a wooden chapel and later a church was built on top of the roots of this oak. The pilgrims would walk around the churchyard-wall praying to Mary at the various chapels. The little chapel you see here which is on the corner of the busy road towards Brussels and the Brussels Ring Road is one of the only two wall chapels remaining. The SG on the gate stands for Societe Generale, the society which managed the Belgian royal properties, and this shows how the Belgian Court and the Jezus-Eik church were linked.
I took this from the passenger seat in the car, as this was one of the rare times we had to stop for the traffic lights right next to this chapel (it's very hard to capture the chapel from the street, too much traffic usually!) I did capture the church itself too, but it's very much a quick snapshot through the front window of the car, see here