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Sint-Paulus
Circuit vélo le long des églises et chapelles de la fédération Dilsen-Stokkem. Le trajet vous emmène le long des charmants paysages de Dilsen, Elen, Rotem, Lanklaar et Stokkem, et vous montre “les pierres qui mettent tout en mouvement”.
Les messes dominicales habituelles auront lieu dans les églises de Lanklaar, Rotem et Elen.
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Sint-Paulus
Along the Oude Baan in Lanklaar stands the Church of Saint Paul, dedicated to the apostle. It carries on a faith deeply rooted in this village: as early as 1422 Dionysus de Pommerio had a church built here on his farm, and in 1836 the parish was declared independent by the bishop of Liège.
On a more central site rose the present church, completed in 1959 to designs by the Maaseik architect A. Daniëls. Because the subsoil is partly quicksand, the building rests on a foundation of ninety-five concrete-filled piers. It is a plain brick cruciform basilica with a modest square tower; above the portal a mural recounts the conversion of Paul.
The interior preserves precious witnesses from earlier churches: a baroque wooden statue of Saint Paul of around 1650, a late-Gothic Calvary cross of about 1520-1530 and, especially valuable, a Romanesque hardstone baptismal font adorned with four masks, dating from around 1200 and among the oldest in Belgium.
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