Chapel corner Palepelstraat - Leieriggestraat

This chapel is in the middle of a 'roundabout' in a small park. A bench invites you to kneel and pray. The trees were recently renewed (2020).

The word chapel is derived from the Latin cappa = mantle, diminutive capella, and refers to the mantle of Saint Martin , Bishop of Tours. Saint Martin gave away his half cloak to a poor person, the half cloak became a relic and the room in which the cloak was kept came to be called capella or chapel by metonymy. From the 7th century, chapel became a name for a (small) place of worship.

Willem Vandenameele