Title

Jubilee of St. Sang, at Bruges - the Benediction at the Cathedral, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Jubilee of St. Sang, at Bruges - the Benediction at the Cathedral, 1850. Religious festival in Belgium to honour of the relic of of the Holy Blood. 'The bells and chimes rang out unceasingly...The people, dressed in their holiday clothes, promenaded the streets...The history of the relic of St. Sang dates from the year 1150...Thierry of Alsace, Count of Flanders, brought from Jerusalem some of the blood of the Saviour, which, according to tradition, had been obtained by Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea...[Pope Clement V asserted that] "This blood becomes liquid every Friday, ordinarily towards six o'clock, whilst, on the other days of the week, the same blood is thick, coagulated, and, as it were, petrified." Unfortunately for the story, this miracle has not been performed in our time; it has ceased since April 13, 1310...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM22A34_416

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Keywords

exterior outdoors people male crowd crowds man men ceremony religious country religion guy belief faith British Bruges Flanders Belgium church tradition ceremonial annual Christianity Belgian location Catholic Catholicism Victorian century Roman Catholic procession Britain newspapers press priest priests concept incense incense burner incense burners B&W relic bishop engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W Roman Catholicism nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN ILN outside newspaper Unknown processional 19th-century Basilica of the Holy Blood Roman Catholics relic of the Holy Blood