Heilige Stede
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Heilige Stede (Dutch - holy site) or Chapel of the Heilige Stede is the chapel built as a result of the miracle of Amsterdam (15 March 1345), on the site on Kalverstraat where this miracle with the eucharistic host occurred.
[edit] History
After the Alteratie, the chapel came into Protestant hands, and was renamed the Nieuwezijds Chapel by them. The building was demolished in 1908, after the outside had been stripped of useful materials, to prevent it ever being used again for Catholic worship, and the ground was sold for the construction of shops, so that the Catholics could never have it back. The miracle church's function had already long been taken over by the Roman Catholic schuilkerk at the Amsterdam Beguinage.
Parts of the chapel are to be found in the Enge Kapelsteeg and on the roof of the schuilkerk De Papegaai in the Kalverstraat. A few fragments of the chapel came to be on the Frankendael in the Watergraafsmeer. On the Rokin was erected the Mirakelkolom (miracle column), though this was disassembled and raised for the construction of the North-south line of the Amsterdam Metro.
