The Great Procession of Tournai

Our Lady of Acren Saint Martin Church, Deux-Acren, copy of statue from 12^th century.

The Deux-Acren parish shelters a miraculous statue dating back to the 12^th century. During restauration work to the church' tower in 1313, it collapsed and smashed everything in the church except this statue. The 17^th february 1346, during the mass, blood is reported to have run from her right nostril, which was collected in a silver vase. Since then, many miraculous graces were obtained with her interceding. Every year, the 17^th february is commemorated by the faithful under the vocable 'the 17^th'. At the occasion of the 650^th anniversary of the miracle, the parishioners cary a copy of the Virgin at the Great Procession of Tournai.