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Arnold was the eldest child of Gerardus Mercator and Barbara Schellekens from Leuven, who married in 1536. [1] [2] Arnold grew up in Leuven and, as a 7-year-old boy, witnessed the arrest of his father, who was then a professor in Leuven. Gerardus Mercator was suspected of Lutheranism. His father was released after a few months.
The school was founded in 1843 by canon Constant van Crombrugghe, founder of the Congregation of the Josephites, on the site of the former Trinity College, Leuven.The main entrance to the school is located on the edge of the Old Market, the rear of the school is at the Father Damien Square, where the mortal remains of Blessed Damien of Molokai rest in the crypt of the St. Anthony Church.
The city of Leuven, in the former Duchy of Brabant, has been the seat of four universities: 1425: The University of Leuven (1425–1797) or Studium Generale Lovaniense or Universitas Studiorum Lovaniensis, was founded by the French prince Jean de Valois Bourgogne, Duke John IV of Brabant, with the consent of Pope Martin V. This university was ...
The Irish College of St Anthony, in Leuven, Belgium (Irish: Coláiste na nGael i Lobháin, Latin: Hibernorum Collegii S. Antonii de Padua Lovanii, French: Collège des Irlandais à Louvain and Dutch: Iers College Leuven), has been a centre of Irish learning on the European Continent since the early 17th century.
The Evangelical Theological Faculty (Dutch: Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, abbreviated as ETF) is an Protestant Evangelical Theological Institute/University in Leuven, Flanders, Belgium and is recognised by the Federal Government of Belgium to award degrees and doctorates.
The Grote Markt (Dutch: [ˌɣroːtə ˈmɑr(ə)kt] ⓘ; "Big Market") is the central square of Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium.It is situated between the Oude Markt ("Old Square") and the Rector De Somerplein ("Rector De Somer Square", named for Pieter De Somer, the first rector of the autonomous Dutch-speaking Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) in 1968) and near both the ...
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The Leuven fair is held annually in the first three weeks of September on the Oude Markt, while the Student welcome is held annually at the end of September. There is also Hapje-Tapje (literally: a little snack-a small drink , approximately pronounced in English as hap-yeh, tap-yeh ): a gastronomical market with a bartender race, at the ...