The Sint-Petruskerk, also known as the Great Church of Sittard, is the highest in Limburg with its tower of 83 meters. She is the showpiece of the city, the beacon of Sittard that you can see from all directions.
Together with the Basilica of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, the St. Peter's Church determines the Sittard skyline. The church differs from the other churches in Sittard's city center not only because of its height, but also because in the past it had the function of a collegiate church.
Parts of the church have been in the hands of different powers since the twelfth century, first from the noble house of the neighboring Born, via the cathedral church in Cologne, to two other noble families and the Marian Chapter of Aachen.
In the meantime, the church has completely belonged to Sittard again. According to tradition, various miracles took place around the Sint-Petruskerk in both the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as a result of which many people from the area went on a pilgrimage to this Sittard church.
An example is that, according to a legend, the statue of Our Lady of the Preservation of the Kranken was found in Bruges after the Iconoclasm, where it had drifted via the river.
Several miracles are said to have happened immediately with the statue: the blind, deaf, dumb, lame and crippled were healed. The protection of the nuns during a looting by the French in 1677 is also attributed to the statue.
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This would have promoted devotion in St. Peter's Church to such an extent that the monastery chapel was completely filled on Saturdays and Marian feasts.
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