Filzmoos – a place of pilgrimage
Time for reflection on your winter holiday
A child as holy figure. Children bring joy and pride, but also worry and anguish. Children are the fortune and future of this world. And yet so many live in poverty, illness and hunger.
„God came into the world as a child. Yet to all who received him, he gave the right to become children of God"
(John 1, 12).
(John 1, 12).
According to local legend, two shepherds heard a little bell ringing and there, where today the shrine (built in 1820) stands, they found a carved figure of the Jesus child ringing a bell and raising its hand in oath. The shepherds took the Jesus child to Altenmarkt. Overnight, however, it returned to its resting place in Filzmoos. After the shrine was built the holy figure in the church was erected.
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