Kippinge valfartskirke

Resumé

The Danish church of Kippinge in Falster is remarkable for being a centre of pilgrimage not only before the Reformation, but well into the 18^th century. In spite of official censure, thousands of people went there, and miraculous cures were reported. Manuscript treaties from the 17^th century are preserved, in which local clergymen fervently discuss whether that pilgrimage is a pious if unorthodox custom to be tolerated, or whether it is the work of Satan. The *”holy” object in the Middle Ages was a miraculous host; after the Reformation it seems to have been the church itself, but in the 18^th century it was the adjoining well, which caused no theological objections.