A group of Armenian pilgrims, representatives of Christian community of the Netherlands, participated in a religious procession to the tomb of Saint Servatius who first spread Christianity in the territory of Belgium and the Netherlands.

Saint Servatius, the first bishop of Maastricht, is venerated as a Christian saint and the saint in Catholicism, and in Eastern Christianity. Representatives of various Christian confessions go on pilgrimage to his grave.

Legends say he was born in Armenia and is a distant relative of John the Baptists and Jesus through his mother, now called Memelia. He arrived in Maastricht and became the first bishop of this city. Here he died in 384. Large numbers of pilgrims still visit the basilica of Saint Servaas at the Vrijthof, built over the grave of this saint.

Nune Poghosyan, Ara Hakobyan from Maastricht