This Gothic church which was built in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries is the second largest in Mechelen. It is on the site that Mechelen’s first parish church probably stood. The tower contains a complete carillon with no fewer than 49 bells.
Many wealthy Mechelen trade guilds had their altars here. The church’s rich interior was [...]
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6 Comments CherryPie on May 19th 2014
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddha
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Building work by the Keldermans family of architects on this imposing Mechelen monument began in 1452. Times and circumstances changed and as a result the tower was never completed. But this did not prevent the 97-metre tower becoming the symbol of Mechelen and a UNESCO world heritage site. The city’s most important documents used to [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 30th 2014
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St Rumbold’s Cathedral – Noah
6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 29th 2014
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St Rumbold’s Cathedral – Christ at the Cross
This painting depicting Christ on the cross was painted by Anthony Van Dyck in 1630. It decorated the main altar of the former Friar Minors’ church before the French revolution.
6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 28th 2014
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St Rumbold’s Cathedral – Stained Glass Window
This window was put in in 1860 by the Mechelen workshop of J.-Fr. Pluys.
It represents the Proclamation of the Dogma of Our Lady Mary’s Immaculate Conception. The timpan represents the creation of the earth. Next to the figure of the pope one sees the one of cardinal Sterckx. The man at the front, to the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 26th 2014
