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Ruisbroek is a village in the municipality of Puurs-Sint-Amands located in the Antwerp Province of Belgium. Ruisbroek was an independent municipality until 1977, when it was merged into Puurs . [ 2 ]
Ruisbroek may refer to multiple places in Belgium: Ruisbroek, Antwerp, a village in the municipality of Puurs-Sint-Amands; Ruisbroek, Flemish Brabant, a village in ...
Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (Dutch pronunciation: [sɪnt ˌpitərs ˈleːu]; French: Leeuw-Saint-Pierre, pronounced [lø sɛ̃ pjɛʁ]) is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium. The municipality comprises the towns of Oudenaken, Ruisbroek, Sint-Laureins-Berchem, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw proper and Vlezenbeek.
Ruisbroek has a railway station along the line Leuven—Braine-le-Comte. It is only 6 minutes to the Brussels south station. It is home to a large community of French-speakers. Ruisbroek has become popular with young families who wish to stay close to Brussels, but due to the house pricing have opted to move a little further from the city.
The Apostolic Nuncio, Cardinal Giacomo Cattani, consecrated the church on 24 June 1874 and also made it the National Shrine of Saint Joseph. The church was occupied by the Redemptorists for many decades until it was looked after by the Syriac Orthodox from 1989 to 2001.
It was founded in 1968 as a boys-only school. In 1994, it became co-educational. [1]The school is governed by a non-profit association and belongs to a group of seven Jesuit colleges who offer private counselling.
John of Ruusbroec or Jan van Ruusbroec (pronounced [ˈjɑɱ vɑn ˈryzbruk]; 1293/1294 – 2 December 1381), sometimes modernized Ruysbroeck, was an Augustinian canon and one of the most important of the medieval mystics of the Low Countries.
Le Royer founded the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph (RHSJ) with Marie de la Ferre in 1636. The RHSJ are distinct from the Sisters of Saint Joseph founded in 1650 at Le Puy-en-Velay, France. In May 1636, Marie de la Ferre and Anne Foureau formed a community at the Hotel-Dieu with three servants of the poor already on site.