A beguine community rose up by the St. Gertrude’s Abbey. This Small Beguinage is mentioned for the first time in 1272. The district consists of a street and two blind alleys where women who served in the nearby abbey lived. The small beguinage had few financial resources and the buildings rapidly fell into decay. The [...]
Archive for the tag 'Belgium'
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Leuven 2015
The Small Beguinage
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 13th 2015
A tree is known by its fruit; we by our deeds. A good deed is never lost; one who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and one who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
15 Comments CherryPie on Jul 12th 2015
Filed under Holidays, Leuven 2015
And Now…
…we find ourselves back at Martin’s Klooster.
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 11th 2015
Filed under Holidays, Leuven 2015
Through the Archway
Let us walk through the archway at the end of the street I showed in my previous post and see what we see…
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 10th 2015
Filed under Holidays, Leuven 2015
Eventually…
… I have edited all my Leuven photos and got them in some sort of order.
So now am able to share more detail about the places I mentioned my in Leuven diary with you.
Do you have a special request from the places that I visited in Leuven?
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 9th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Leuven 2015
Leuven – Day Seven
Once again we were offered Champagne for breakfast although on this occasion there were no strawberries so I opted for mixed fresh fruit instead. We had packed our cases before breakfast but before returning to our room to collect them we asked the hotel receptionist if he would book a taxi to take us to [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jul 4th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Leuven 2015
Leuven – Day Six
We were even later for breakfast this morning but when we arrived we were greeted with ‘Good Morning, would you like a glass of Champagne, it is a Belgium custom’. It would have been rude to refuse such an offer, and as luck would have it, strawberries were also available on the breakfast bar. Their [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jul 3rd 2015
