Tongerlo Abbey is a Premonstratensian monastery at Tongerlo in Westerlo near Antwerp, Belgium. It was founded in 1128 in honour of the Blessed Virgin...
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the city of Herentals. Tongerlo is best known for Tongerlo Abbey founded in 1128 which became one of the most important abbeys of Belgium. In 1128, the...
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(c. 1520) and is on display in the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of the Tongerlo Abbey, Belgium. A study for The Last Supper from Leonardo's notebooks shows...
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Premonstratensians (section Abbeys)
printing (Averbode Abbey, Tongerlo Abbey, Berne Abbey), farming (Kinshasa, Ireland, Postel Abbey), forestry (Schlägl Abbey, Geras Abbey, Slovakia), and cheese-making...
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1970s. Tongerlo Abbey contains a very old and fine copy of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper. It is also known as home of the Tongerlo Abbey beer, but...
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Habsburg governor of the Low Countries in 1788, the work continued at Tongerlo Abbey. After the creation of the Kingdom of Belgium, the Bollandists were...
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Essen, Belgium (section Abbey of Tongerlo)
In 1159, Berner van Rijsbergen granted Essen as an allodium to Tongerlo Abbey. The abbey shared lordship rights with the Dukes of Brabant. Essen, along...
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was a Premonstratensian spiritual author, missionary, and abbot of Tongerlo Abbey. In the last capacity he sat in the First Estate of the States of Brabant...
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Roman era province, the civitas Tungrorum, and also places such as Tongerlo Abbey, and Tongelre. In a comment in his book Germania, Tacitus remarks that...
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to follow a religious life and in 1934 entered the Premonstratensian Tongerlo Abbey, of the Norbertine Order, in the province of Antwerp, in Belgium, taking...
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Countries. Their library was acquired by the Premonstratensians of Tongerlo Abbey, who endeavored to carry on the work. The fifty-third volume was published...
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celebrated: a Descent from the Cross (50 figures), on the high altar of Tongerlo Abbey. Philip of Burgundy ordered Gossaert to execute a replica for the church...
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Peter Hubert Evermode Backx (1805–1868) was a 19th-century abbot of Tongerlo Abbey, in Belgium. Catholic Encyclopedia article Portals: Biography Catholicism...
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discovered. Nijlen was first mentioned in 1146 as having possessions of Tongerlo Abbey. The village was damaged during the Reformation and nearly depopulated...
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prince-bishops of Liège, confirmed gifts made by Arnulf and his son Arnulf II to Tongerlo Abbey which had the right of patronage of the parish of Nispen. Until 1287...
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perspectives (i.e. architectural works). His drawing of Tongerlo Abbey served as model for a print of Tongerlo Abbey in bird's eye perspective made by the engraver...
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and, claiming to be dangerously ill, retired to the Carmelite nuns at Tongerlo Abbey, where he successfully resisted an attempt to question and arrest him...
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Beer in Belgium (redirect from Abbey beer)
Brouwerij De Gouden Boom [nl]. Tongerlo is brewed in Boortmeerbeek by Brouwerij Haacht [nl]. Other non-certified Abbey beers include:- Abbaye des Rocs...
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at Lincoln Cathedral, was added in 1949. The canons later came from Tongerlo Abbey in Belgium, and the house ceased to be a priory in 1983. There are several...
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classical sculpture. Later many of his works in Brussels, Antwerp, Tongerlo Abbey, and elsewhere were destroyed in the Reformation and French Revolution...
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Kalmthout around 1535, the son of a tenant of Tongerlo Abbey. In January 1556 he was clothed as a Norbertine in Tongerlo, and in May 1558 he made his solemn profession...
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St Michael's Abbey in Antwerp was a Premonstratensian abbey founded in 1124 by Norbert of Xanten and laid waste during the French Revolutionary Wars. In...
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decorations for the Tongerlo Abbey, in particular the abbot's residence. In 1629 he created the high altar for the St. Bernard Abbey in Hemiksem (now in...
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college in nearby Turnhout. On 25 August 1875 he became a member of Tongerlo Abbey, taking the name of Thomas of Canterbury. He was ordained to the priesthood...
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the heerlijkheid of Ginhoven. In 1440, it became the property of the Tongerlo Abbey. In 1842, Zondereigen became an independent parish. In 1831, during...
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the Maior Seminary, Ghent Library of Maredsous Abbey Library of Park Abbey Library of Tongerlo Abbey Bibliotheca Wittockiana Library of the Bar Association;...
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located to the north of the village. It was originally owned by the Tongerlo Abbey, and transferred to the Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch in 1593. In 1648...
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Germany where St Norbert was made Archbishop. – Magpie Tongerlo Town in Belgium with a Norbertine Abbey which is the 'grandmother' of the Queens Park community...
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ignored the order and, claiming to be dangerously ill, retired to the Tongerlo Abbey, where he successfully resisted an attempt to question and arrest him...
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Premonstratensian order), dedicated to Adrianus Stalpartius, abbot of Tongerlo Abbey (on Google Books) Originum monasticarum libri IV, Cologne, 1620 (on...
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