Our Lady of the Potteries tapestry

Can anybody please explain the story that is depicted in the tapestry and facing stained glass window at the church of Our Lady of the Potteries. None of my guidebooks cover this and I%26#39;ve had no luck at all searching on the internet. It all looks very complicated featuring, among other things, a child falling to her death down a stairs. I%26#39;d love to kmow what%26#39;s going on.

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I would guess it is the same %26quot;miracle%26quot; story as is related in a nearby 1760 calvary, according to the guidebook %26quot;Brugge Inside Out%26quot;: %26quot;Anna, an orphan, went to draw water for a sick neighbour but was attacked by ruffians who threw her into the well. Alas there were no cross-bow archers in sight.. In sorrow and anguish Anna%26#39;s foster mother went on her knees to Our Lady of the Potterie (not the Potteries, incidentally, but the guild of potters), which was quite a feat, considering the bad condition of the streets in those days.. As she was coming back, the crowd which had gathered called to her, a wonder (they mean miracle!), that the water in the well had frozen hard, so that little Anna got away with bruises and shock.%26quot;

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Thanks for the reply qaminari but I%26#39;m afraid it%26#39;s not the little Anna story - this particular child has fallen down a staircase in a house - not a well, and appears to be dead, with her hat lying beside her head. Two adults, presumably her parents are looking at her still body in horror. In another picture the body of the child appears to have been taken to a cornfield for some reason. Perhaps I%26#39;ve got the name of the place wrong. I saw this in the chapel that was attached to the potterie museum (sorry about the s in my previous post). There was a whole wall containing these astained glass windows with a long tapestry opposite mirrowing the pictures.

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