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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).
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Basilica of Our Lady of Hanswijk, Mechelen, Antwerp; Basilica of Our Lady of Scherpenheuvel, Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Flemish Brabant; Basilica of Our Lady of Tongre, Chièvres, Hainaut; Basilica of the Holy Blood, Bruges, West Flanders; Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Brussels; Abbey Basilica of St Andrew, Zevenkerken, West Flanders
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.
Margaret of Parma later decided to place the triptych in the Church of Our Lady in Bruges. [4] Allegory of Iconoclasm, [6] c. 1560s. Gheeraerts was further commissioned in 1561 to make a print depicting a map of his hometown. He completed the work in one year. The map is one of the earliest examples of a perspective city map that is correctly ...
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.
An earlier diocese of Bruges was established on 12 May 1558, on territory split off from the Diocese of Tournai, as part of the great Habsburg reform of the church in the then Spanish Low Countries. Its see, St. Donatian's Cathedral, was destroyed in a fire in 1799 during the aftermath of the French Revolution. [citation needed]