Chapel of the Holy well is a chapel located in Marianka

Marianka

Marianka is a village and municipality in western Slovakia in Malacky District in the Bratislava region, in the foothills of the Little Carpathians. The village is the oldest pilgrimage site in Slovakia and the first pilgrimage site dedicated to Virgin Mary in the area of former Hungarian Kingdom...

, Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

, upon the rumoured miraculous stream. The stream was reported to have miraculous healing effect on physically handicapped pilgrims visiting the pilgrimage site. In book of Kummer from the record of local cloister, 140 unusual recoveries were reported between 1634 - 1730. Among those recoveries were such as relief from blindness, reuma, paralysis, mestruation difficulties or mental diseases. Thankful believers presented Virgin Mary with various gifts or had engraved their prayers of thanks to slate tiles in a shrine beside the stream to the Virgin Mary which resembles pilgrim cave in Lourdes

Lourdes

Lourdes is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in south-western France.Lourdes is a small market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees, famous for the Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes occurred in 1858 to Bernadette Soubirous...

, France

France

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History of the chapel

Rotunda Chapel of the Holy well was commissioned in 1696 for 1000 golden coins by earl Paul Eszterhazy and local baron Ján Macholány, who is pictured with his family on one of the ceiling frescos. In the year of 1722 a new baroque altar was built, replacing the original one. In the year 1877 the statues of St. Anthony and St. Paul the Hermits were placed in front of the chapel. These statues came from the workshop of Rafael Donner. In the year 1981 these statues were replaced by replicas, made in Brno. Originals were transferred to the Slovak National Gallery, where they are a part of the original Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

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The chapel was built right above the stream, out of which the water is directed to the front of the chapel and where its accessible to the visitors.