Notre Dame du Bon Succès

Notre Dame du Bon Succès is a wooden statue of the Madonna and Child in the Church of Our Lady of Finisterrae in central Brussels, Belgium.

Originally from St Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen, Scotland, it is believed to have been sent to Dunkirk by William Laing, the Procurer for the King of Spain.

[3] At the beginning of the Scottish Reformation (c. 1559), many Christian art and consecrated religious objects from churches and, from St Machar's Cathedral in Old Aberdeen in particular, were either destroyed by the officials of the Kirk or given for safe keeping to Catholic sympathisers.

There is a reliable and well documented history of Notre Dame du Bon Succès in Brussels from that date until the present.

[1] Since Catholic Emancipation in 1829, replicas of the statue have become widely popular objects of devotion throughout the whole North East of Scotland.