Saint Arnoldus is depicted on the gable stone IN S ARNOLDUS, Boschstraat 101 in his capacity as the craftsman saint of the beer brewers. This is clearly shown by the basket and stirring sticks, which played a role in brewing beer. The same attributes can be found on the gable stones of the Duke's Mill and the Bishop's Mill, owned by and vital to the brewing trade.
The presence of this saint in the city of Maastricht, where the brewers formed a large and powerful craft, is not so very strange. However, one would rather have expected to find this house name in Grote Staat, the location of their luibe (=meeting place) which was demolished in 1830, losing a stone with the text "braXatorUM InDIVIso CoLLegIo (undivided brewers' council, 1724). In the same street, in the house of the smiths, there was a sign of the patron saint of St. Eloy. This was no. 12, called "het smeetshuys".
In 1930 the stone of St. Arnoldus was still in one of the workshops of the Ceramique behind Hoogbrugstraat and probably comes from that street where "St. Arnoldus, the black sheep and the cherry tree were all next to each other". It could therefore have been no. 9.
Basket and stirring sticks, tools of the brewing trade, needed to brew beer.
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