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The Church of Our Lady (Dutch: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk) is a Roman Catholic church in Bruges, Belgium, dating mainly from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries.Its 115.6-metre-high (379 ft) tower remains the tallest structure in the city and the third tallest brickwork tower in the world (after St. Mary's Church in Lübeck and St. Martin's Church in Landshut, both in Germany).
Area of Bruges expanded. [3] Church of Our Lady tower built. [3] 1302 18 May: Bruges Matins (massacre) occurs. French-Flemish Battle of the Golden Spurs fought in Kortrijk; Flemish win. [1] 1303 – Procession of the Holy Blood instituted. 1323–1328 – The Flemish revolt spread to Bruges. 1364 – Les Halles built on the Grote Markt. [4]
This connects the house to the adjacent Church of Our Lady, Bruges. [1] In 1596, the house was bought by Philip II of Spain and in 1623 given to Wenceslas Cobergher to house the Bruges mount of piety. The city of Bruges bought the house in 1875, and architect Louis Delacenserie completely restored it between 1883 and 1895.
Funeral of Mary of Burgundy in Church of Our Lady, Bruges: 30 August: Louis de Bourbon, Bishop of Liège assassinated by William de La Marck. 19 November: Six women burned at the stake in Bruges for having committed "sodomy" with women. [75] 23 December
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The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico, is celebrated on Dec. 12. In New York, a church of the same name is a seminal part of the city's Spanish and Hispanic history.
The Tomb of Mary of Burgundy is a funeral monument completed in 1501 for Mary of Burgundy's grave in the Church of Our Lady, Bruges. She died in March 1482, aged 25, following injuries sustained during a hunting accident a number of weeks earlier. Mary was born in 1457 as the only child of Charles the Bold and Isabella of Bourbon.