Märtyrerkapelle, Neumagen-Dhron
Moselle, river kilometre 154
Chapel built between 1506 and 1510 by Count Salentin von Isenburg and his wife Elisabeth von Hunolstein in honour of the Trier Martyrs – Christians who were killed in Trier on 6 October 286 under Rictiovarus. Legend has it that their blood coloured the waters of the Moselle red all the way to this spot. In the middle of the 3rd century,
there were persecutions of Christians in the Roman Empire. In 313, the Roman emperors Constantine and Licinius issued the Milan Agreement, thus initiating the Constantinian Turn, in the course of which Christianity gained influence in the Roman Empire. (source:Wikipedia)
