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The Cathedral of Our Lady (French: Notre-Dame de Tournai; Dutch: Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Doornik), or Tournai Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral, see of the Diocese of Tournai in Tournai, Belgium. It has been classified both as a Wallonia major heritage site since 1936 [ 5 ] and as a World Heritage Site since 2000.
The Bishop of Tournai retained only two scores of the parishes formerly under his jurisdiction, but received on the right bank of the Schelde a number of parishes which, prior to the Revolution, had belonged to the Diocese of Cambrai (302), Namur (50), and Liège (50). Tournai Cathedral Rear view of Tournai Cathedral
In the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels: . Collegiate Church of St. Peter and St. Guido; Convent Van Maerlant; Church of Our Lady of Finisterrae; Church of Our Lady of Laeken ...
Odo of Orléans was appointed at the cathedral school of Tournai in 1087. [9] Under Odo's leadership, Saint-Martin Abbey flourished and by 1105 had 70 monks. [ 10 ] The commune's drive for independence from the local counts succeeded in 1187, and the city was henceforth directly subordinated to the French Crown, as the seigneurie de Tournaisis ...
The Reliquary Shrine of Saint Eleutherius, 1247, in the Cathedral of Tournai. The great gilt-copper and enamel Reliquary Shrine of Saint Eleutherius in the cathedral of Tournai (), one of the masterpieces of Gothic metalwork, [1] was commissioned by Bishop Walter de Marvis of Tournai, and completed in 1247, [2] on the occasion of the retranslation of relics of Saint Eleutherius of Tournai ...
[2] Since December 1961, following the restructuring of the Catholic dioceses in Belgium, the Archdiocese of Mechelen was renamed the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels. This newly created archdiocese is the primatial see of Belgium and the centre of the ecclesiastical province governed by the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels, which covers the ...
Notre-Dame Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church, see of the Diocese of Tournai in Tournai. Begun in the 12th century on even older foundations, the building combines the work of three design periods with striking effect: the heavy and severe character of the Romanesque nave contrasting remarkably with the Transitional work of the transept and ...
The rights to the neighbouring villages of Herseaux and Luingne – now also part of Mouscron – were also given to the Tournai Cathedral in 1178. In the 14th century, the Seigneury of Mouscron was eventually sold to a lord of Tournai, and in 1430, the Castle of the Counts ( Château des Comtes ) became the lord's manor, which can still be ...