Museo Mons - Saint Waltrude collegiate church, the dream ot the canoness ladies

Chapel Saint Peter

Chapel Saint Alphonse de Liguori

Chapel of departed

Chapel Saint Hilary

Chapel Saint Macaire

Chapel of Baptismal fonts 

Chapel Saint Elosius

The chor organ

Chapel so-called "du Christ à the Paille"

Chapel saint Aye

Chapel saint Mary-Magdalena

Chapel Saint Ghislain

Chapel saint Aldegonde

Chapel of the Crucifix

Chapel Our Lady of Tongre

Chapel Our Lady of Sorrows

Chapel of saint Waudru or Saint Vincent

Chapel of the Holy Blood

Chapel Our Lady so-called “de Toute-Puissance”

Chapel Saint Roch

Chapel saint Franciscus

Chapel so-called 'Des Fééries'

Chapel saint Donat

Chapel saint John the Baptist of the Salle

Chapel saint Yves or saint Claude

Chapel of the Holy Face

Parish chapel

Chapel Our Lady of the Rosary

Welcome

An incredible bet for a sumptuous result

What an elegance !

Why this church precisely here?

A coach for a procession

The procession of the "Golden Coach"

The Materials : the blue stone

The materials : the sandstone

A church but also a cemetery

A "taulet"

The side chapels

The St Eligius Chapel

The reliquary of the head of St Waltrude

These Lady Canonesses

The Gothic Collegiate Church project

The Renaissance jube : the second challenge of the canonesses

The choir, the most sacred place.

The stained-glass windows : witnesses of the relation with the power

The central stained-glass window

The Virtues

The art of Jacques Du Brœucq

The shrine of the body of St Waltrude

After the canonesses

A very philosophical sarcophagus !

To go further…

Sit down and enjoy

Let’s progress to the side nave

Let’s sit in front of the choir

Let’s enter in the choir

Let’s go close to the Virtues

Leaving the choir

Credits

Discovering the tour

The project

Order in chaos

The Garden of Eden

The relief in all its states

The rood screen finished

The Resurrection : A giant with feet of alabaster

The Resurrection : Attribution declared

The Resurrection : The magic of alabaster

The Virtues : A shocking septet

Temperance

Strength

Justice

Faith

Hope

Jacques Du Broeucq himself

The removal of the rood screen – the ending of the Chapter

Conclusion

The Annunciation

The Adoration of The Magi

The Crucifixion

The 5 imperial stained-glass windows

We Welcome you to the St Waltrude’s collegiate church

Why so much gravestones in a church ?

St Eligius chapel

These Lady Canonesses