Silent Walk Festival Amsterdam | Netherlands Cultures

Silent Procession – Stille Omgang in Amsterdam:-

Consistently on March 12, a Catholic festival begins in Amsterdam. The tradition began in 1345 when a truly sick man feeling near death called the minister for the last Sacrament. A progression of marvelous occasions took after, with the host resisting fire and even on two separate events changing its place in the city – from the Oude Kerk where it had been brought after it supernaturally opposed fire, back home to the evil man. A long time later the house of prayer and later the congregation were raised on the place of the principal miracle. Consistently on Sunday night, following the beginning of the festival, the Silent Procession likewise called the Silent Walk (Dutch: Stille Omgang) occurred through the Amsterdam Old City focus.

Miracle City:-

In the Middle Ages, miracles ensured of the significance of the city. With the miracle affirmed by the Catholic Church, Amsterdam turned into the focal point of journeys from somewhere else in Europe – the Miracle City. Particularly after Black Death scourge wiped out the greater part of Europe populace in the years 1348-1350, the significance of the Amsterdam miracle quickly developed. It is just in 1578, when the city committee decided for Protestantism, that the procession is prohibited together with the Catholic confidence. All things considered, the tradition goes that a little emblematic festival by little gatherings of devotees, once in a while only a couple of individuals, was subtly maintained all through seventeenth and eighteenth hundreds of years.

The Procession:-

Liberation of the Catholics in the Netherlands in the nineteenth C., brought back the Silent Procession in 1881 and since at that point, it happens each year. Members don't spruce up, convey neither religious images nor banners, there are no uproarious petitions or singing, it is only a stroll peacefully, henceforth additionally the name the Silent Walk.

It happens around the Old City from the Spui to the place of the Miracle – named Miracle City put (Dutch: Heilige Stad) at that point to the Nieuwe Kerk and the Oude Kerk and back to the Miracle place and Spui. The congregation worked in 1912 on the place of the miracle was desacralized, it houses today Amsterdam Dungeon, thus Begijnhof Chapel fills in as the place of love for this festival.

At the point when:-

In March on the main Sunday after March 12, soon after the midnight on Saturday