The tiny sheet of paper was carefully put in this box of matches
Saint James‘ Church in Antwerp, where the hidden note was found, is one of the city’s most important architectural and historical venues.
In the early fifteenth century, it used to be the starting point for pilgrims journeying to the burial place of St. James the Greater in Santiago de Compostela. The church soon proved to be too small and in 1491, it was reconstructed in Brabant Gothic style.