Cities of Belgium: Grant Allen's Historical GuidesAllen, Grant
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Cities of Belgium: Grant Allen's Historical Guides
Allen, Grant
Belgium -- Guidebooks
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Now, enter the =Chapel= by the North Transept, that of =the Holy
Sacrament=, erected in 1535-39, in honour of the Miraculous (Stolen)
Hosts, which are still preserved here, and which are carried in
procession annually on the Sunday following the 15th of July. The
windows in this chapel, each of which bears its date above, were placed
in it immediately after its erection, and are the best in the Cathedral.
They exhibit the style of the Transitional Renaissance. Each window
shows, above, the story of the Stolen Hosts, with, below, the various
donors and their patrons. _First window_ as you enter: Above, the
Bribery: below, King John III. of Portugal with his patron, St.
John-Baptist; and Queen Catherine, his wife (sister of Charles V.), with
her patron, St. Catherine, holding her sword of martyrdom and trampling
on the tyrant Maximin: (all by Michael Coxcie). _Second window_: above,
the Hosts insulted in the Synagogue: below, Louis of Hungary, with his
patron, St. Louis; and Marie, his wife (sister of Charles V.), with her
patroness, Our Lady (Coxcie). _Third window_: above, same subject as in
the 3rd of the S. Aisle—perhaps the attack on the Jews: below, Francis
I. of France, with his patron, St. Francis, receiving the Stigmata;
behind him, Eleonora, his wife (sister of Charles V.), with her
patroness, St. Helena (Bernard van Orley). _Fourth window_: above,
Denunciation of the Jews: below, Ferdinand, brother of Charles V., with
his patron, St. Ferdinand; and his wife, Anne, with her patron, St. Anna
(Bernard van Orley). The _end window_ represents the Adoration of the
Holy Sacrament, and of the Lamb that was slain, in a composition
suggested by the Van Eyck at Ghent. Below, to the L. are an Emperor and
Empress (Charles V. and Isabella), a king and queen, and other
representatives of the world secular: to the R. are a pope, a cardinal,
bishops, prophets, and other representatives of the church or the world
ecclesiastical.
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