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Every year 1.5 million people make a pilgrimage to the Bavarian town of Altoetting.

This small town is famous for the Gnadenkapelle (Chapel of the Miraculous Image), of one of the most visited shrines in Germany. The chapel keeps a venerated statue of the Virgin Mary. According to the legend, in 1489, a 3-year-old local boy who had drowned in the river was revived when his grieving mother placed him in front of a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary at the high altar.

Photographer

Mark Mühlhaus

Dated from 2009-07-26

the full monty religion