„Wherever the journeyman carried it, the statue of the Virgin Mary always returned to the place where it was found.“
According to legend, a journeyman from Sokolov found a Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary with the Infant Jesus in a hazel bush on Chlum hill. The statue kept returning to the place where it was found, so a wooden chapel was built over it, later a Gothic church and finally a magnificent Baroque basilica.
Since the Middle Ages the site has been cared for by the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star. After decades of decline in the 20th century they have returned and are gradually restoring the complex.
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