Amsterdam Miracle and the Stille Omgang

Amsterdam Miracle and the Stille Omgang

In 1345, in a house on Kalverstraat, something happened that would turn Amsterdam into a place of pilgrimage for centuries. It’s the kind of story that feels almost out of place in today’s city, which is modern and not very religious, and yet it once shaped how people saw Amsterdam. A man was dying. A priest came to give him the Eucharist, the consecrated host (consecrated bread). The man being ill, he vomited. The host was thrown into the fire,…