Of all the piles of evidence heaped before the commission, the most interesting and dramatic proved to be the testimonies meant to demonstrate each village’s long-term claim to jurisdiction over the area in the woods around the Jesus Oak. During the next six months, the most important people in Tervuren and Overijse were suddenly the very elderly, some in their nineties, who came forward one after the other to tell stories that proved their parish’s prior claim to the Oak.
