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Caption: ter Potterie 1421
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Caption: Hidden church and museum in Bruges.
Small and humble church that started as a pelgrimage in 1300
Just around the corner
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Caption: During childhood we went to plenty of different churches, usually based on the timing of their ceremonies. No idea why we never went to the church of the Potterie.
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Caption: Since a few years, after all kids got out of the house and my parents got retired, they started going to a little church at their side of the city. The church was familiar to my mother. She remembers sitting on her fathers’ shoulders when standing in the doorway. Always the churched was packed full.
It is though dad who became the proud treasure holder of the church.
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Caption: Jan de Beer’s grave
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Caption: The little church got very wealthy. Therefore the nuns of the hospital build a second church adjacent to the old one. One donor, major of Bruges, was Jan de Beer. He bought for his wife and himself a show grave at the altar of the old Potterie church.
Jan de Beer, is the founder of Meulebeke. We live there now.
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Caption: “Meulebecae”
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Caption: At home, there is this 1937 book
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Caption: Treasure holders have their own chair but not ideal when going there with your spouse. Together, they sit elsewhere
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Caption: This church is full of great stories.
The wealthy nuns were made believe all kind of funny stuff
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Caption: Behind the church, there is a treasure room and access to the closter, still occupied by 3 elderly nuns
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Caption: “The Flemish are the most honest true-hearted race of people I have met with”.
King Charles II, 1662
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Caption: In the back, this governmental house has a secret room with access to the water
