I have never visited it myself, but there's a chapel, built in 1676, in Sevenum (Limburg, Netherlands) with quite an interesting history, or rather, legend behind it. Some time before the chapel was built, on a winter day, a girl called Lucia Slots was being followed by a (rather hungry-looking) wolf while she was taking a walk through the forest. Like every normal human being, she got quite scared and, being a Catholic like everyone used to be in Limburg back in those days, she started to pray. She prayed for the Holy Virgin Mary, promising she'd build a chapel for her if she'd save her from the wolf. Not long after that, a bang was heard: the wolf had been shot dead. Some versions say Lucia paid for the chapel herself, others say her father built it, but the story of why it was built is the same in both versions. The chapel, which is called the "Mariakapel", "Onze-Lieve-Vrouwe ter Nood" and "Kapel van het Wonderbare Schot", was last renovated in 1964 and still exists today.
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