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This wooden roman sculpture of Christ is situated in the Saint-Willibrord's basilica from the 11 th century A.D. in the small and delicious city of Echternach in Luxembourg.

This sculpture is from the 11 th or 12th century and we don't know anything about the sculptor.

This basilica was a former benedictine monastery till the end of the 18 th century.

The church had been destroyed in december 1944 during the battle of the Ardennes. It has been reconstructed after the second world war.

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Uploaded on November 17, 2007
Taken on August 23, 2007