028 THE CHAPEL of The HOLY BLOOD…
DAY 3 THE CHAPEL of The HOLY BLOOD…
We go out and take the stairs up to the upper Chapel, actually a minor Basilica.
Legend has it that after the Crucifixion, Joseph of Arimathea wiped blood from the body of Christ and preserved the cloth.
The relic remained in the Holy Land until the Second Crusade, when the King of Jerusalem Baldwin III gave it to his brother-in-law, Count of Flanders Diederik van den Elzas.
The count arrived with it in Bruges on April 7, 1150 and placed it in a chapel he had built on Burg Square.
The upper chapel was originally Romanesque as well, but is now Gothic with mostly modern decoration.
It is lit by stained glass windows and covered with murals, including a brightly painted altar backdrop depicting the Trinity and scenes relating to the Holy Blood relic.
The pulpit in the form of a globe dates was made in 1728 by Henry Pulinckx.
I wish you a day full of beauty and thank you for your visit, Magda, (*_*)
For more of my other work visit here: www.indigo2photography.com
Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
028 THE CHAPEL of The HOLY BLOOD…
DAY 3 THE CHAPEL of The HOLY BLOOD…
We go out and take the stairs up to the upper Chapel, actually a minor Basilica.
Legend has it that after the Crucifixion, Joseph of Arimathea wiped blood from the body of Christ and preserved the cloth.
The relic remained in the Holy Land until the Second Crusade, when the King of Jerusalem Baldwin III gave it to his brother-in-law, Count of Flanders Diederik van den Elzas.
The count arrived with it in Bruges on April 7, 1150 and placed it in a chapel he had built on Burg Square.
The upper chapel was originally Romanesque as well, but is now Gothic with mostly modern decoration.
It is lit by stained glass windows and covered with murals, including a brightly painted altar backdrop depicting the Trinity and scenes relating to the Holy Blood relic.
The pulpit in the form of a globe dates was made in 1728 by Henry Pulinckx.
I wish you a day full of beauty and thank you for your visit, Magda, (*_*)
For more of my other work visit here: www.indigo2photography.com
Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved