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Boxmeer - H. Petrusbasiliek

City: Boxmeer is a municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. This town, located on the Meuse, has about 28,575 people (2010). In the 13th century Jan Boc of Mere was the administrator appointed by the Duke of Guelders. Gradually the name “country of Boc de Mere” came to be accepted. Later it became Boc's-Meer and finally Boxmeer. Along with four other municipalities Boxmeer forms ‘the land of Cuijk, for centuries an isolated area.

Building: H. Petrusbasiliek The present church (basilica) is built on a site where a church had been previously built in the 4th century. About the 12th century the wooden church was replaced by a church of stone. During the war the church was completely destroyed - the present church is a reconstruction of the former one.

Object: The Divine Name can be seen on the entrance, outside, on the left. It is written on a plaque. The name is not written as the Tetragrammaton but as the transliteration: 'JHWH'.

 

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