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Friday, September 11, 2020

Wedding of Leopold & Lilian

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Today marks the anniversary of the religious marriage of Leopold III, King of the Belgians and Miss Mary-Lilian Baels. Early in the morning ...
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Saturday, August 29, 2020

Koningin Astrid van België (1935)

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In commemoration of the 85th anniversary of the death of Queen Astrid, wife of King Leopold III, mother of King Baudouin, King Albert II, a...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Another Albert and Elisabeth of Belgium

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The Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia Here are some articles on the life of Isabel Clara Eugenia, the daughter of Philip II of Spain who became t...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Travels with a Curator: Charterhouse, Bruges

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A presentation by Xavier F. Salomon of the Frick Collection of a beautiful painting, “The Virgin and Child with St. Barbara, St. Elizabeth, ...
Monday, August 10, 2020

Levina Teerlinc

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A presentation by Claire Ridgway on a Flemish-born artist of the Tudor court. More HERE.
Sunday, August 9, 2020

Agnus Dei - Samuel Barber LIVE

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A haunting performance by the Vlaams Radiokoor of Belgium.
Saturday, December 7, 2019

The Social Reforms of Queen Astrid

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In Astrid:1905-1935 , a collection of essays edited by Christian Koninckx, Louise-Marie Libert-Vandenhove gives an interesting descriptio...
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Friday, December 6, 2019

The Queen Who Never Was

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Today is the anniversary of the civil wedding of Leopold III and Lilian Baels. The ceremony took place on December 6, 1941, less than thr...
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Sunday, December 1, 2019

Berthe Petit

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Berthe Petit (1870-1943) was a Belgian Franciscan tertiary, mystic, stigmatist and apostle of devotion to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart...
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Friday, January 11, 2019

Lidwina of Schiedam

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A Dutch Catholic mystic and saint whose relics were kept in Brussels for over two hundred years.   One of the sisters of Princess Lilian...
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