{"id":46987,"date":"2021-07-22T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/topa.be\/nacht-van-de-kerken\/2014-1814-1914-2014\/"},"modified":"2021-09-27T18:35:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T16:35:31","slug":"2014a","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/topa.be\/en\/nacht-van-de-kerken\/2014a\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 \u2013 1814\/1914\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Third NIGHT OF CHURCHES<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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After the French domination, the typical Antwerp Madonna and other religious images reappeared in the street scene.<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The ‘Great War’.
\nThe Antwerp churches go in search of life in the parish in wartime, the parishioners who died and the priests in the resistance.
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12 churches in Antwerp went on tour<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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1514 \u2013 1814 \u2013 1914 – 2014<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The chapel, originally of the dry shearers’ guild, was probably completed in 1514<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After the Concordat of 1801, it became a subsidiary church of the parishes of St. Charles and St. Anthony. Immediately in 1814<\/strong>, a statue of the seated Virgin Mary with Child<\/strong> was placed in the porch niche: a white-painted terracotta work by Joannes Eyckmans (signed and dated). The statue was just restored in 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Early in the 20th century, the neighbouring building and subsequently the chapel too became the property of the Missionaries of Africa, better known as ‘the White Fathers<\/strong>‘ because of their exclusively white bar. They were only too happy to establish a missionary bureau in the port city, more specifically between the Central Station and the Scheldt quays where, among other things, the Congo boats moored. At the outbreak of the war the novices from Capenberg in Boechout fled to the study house in Boxtel, to be able to breathe “free Dutch air”.<\/p>\n

On Christmas Day 1915 a total of 35 novices and young missionaries receive the message of their mobilization as stretcher bearers. Eight of them died on the battlefield. Brother Lode de Boninge<\/strong>, born in Antwerp from a French speaking notary family with the first name ‘Louis’, rebels at the front of the Ijzer at the sight of the needless misery of the Flemish soldiers and publishes for his soldiers, at his own expense, the paper De Leiekerels, but it is soon, just like all other Flemish associations, forbidden by the authorities. The clandestinity that follows ensures an even greater success of the (Flemish) Front Movement, which he later joins. However, he is killed in his service as a stretcher bearer. In 1934 his statue was inaugurated on one of the corners of the Ijzertoren in Diksmuide, but his father always refused to have his remains interred there in the crypt.<\/p>\n

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About 20 White Fathers in Congo are deployed as army chaplains in the campaign against German East Africa, being Ruanda-Urundi, half of them with the Belgian armed forces, the other as ‘chaplains’ with the British armed forces. They also did social work by mediating between the Congolese soldiers and their Belgian officers.<\/p>\n

Neither the mission procura in Antwerp nor the chapel suffered any noteworthy damage. Their training centre in Boechout, on the edge of Antwerp’s defence perimeter, first receives hundreds of Belgian soldiers on the retreat, then masses of civilians, fleeing in panic at the news of unheard-of German atrocities, and also on their way to Antwerp. Afterwards, German soldiers are stationed there. During the war years, the trainee fathers turned out to be complete grain smugglers<\/strong> – thanks to their cassocks: “two bags of grain in the trousers, two bags in the cassock and two bags in the overcoat”. In those days, the religious habit had an inviolable value, for friend and foe alike…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\"\"<\/a>“They resisted the enemies of their country” is the biblical text from the Book of Maccabees (1 Maccabees 14:29) that pays tribute to the fallen. The crowning of the memorial shows the Belgian armour. The list of soldiers who gave their lives for their people is the start of an exhibition about the fallen parishioners with photos, letters and diaries.<\/p>\n

And don’t forget the beautiful statues of Mary<\/strong> in the neighbourhood, often named after the devotional statue in the parish church: Our Lady of Assistance and Victory: Pompstraat (1793) and Steenhouwersvest (1814).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\"\"<\/a>St Anne’s Church is too young to be able to tell much about WWI. Everything connected with earlier times is now buried. The 19th-century ‘St Anne in the pit’ church was demolished and replaced ‘at a higher level’ by the present modernist church built in 1970.<\/p>\n

But for the ‘Night of the Churches’, Saint-Anna is opening its doors. It welcomes you to its double exhibition ‘MA<\/strong><\/em>‘, which stands for ‘openness, space in which people meet each other and the mystery’.<\/p>\n

Japanese artist Sei Arimori lets the light do the talking and plays with reflections of the gold, symbol of life and spirituality.<\/p>\n

In the work of the Belgian sculptor Annie Brasseur, tension and suppleness reign in the wood sculptures and pure geometry in the metal sculptures.<\/p>\n

All this harmonises perfectly with the wonderful light and colour palette of the church-wide stained-glass windows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\"\"<\/a>Two memorials<\/strong> form each other’s counterpart at the back of the church. Both white stone statues on marble pedestals are the work of the sculptor E. Deckers. The sculpture group ‘Anna, Joachim and Maria<\/strong>‘ was commissioned by anonymous donors in 1913. The ‘Monument to the fallen of the First World War<\/strong>‘ (1923), is a copy of part of the pedestal of his majestic equestrian statue of King Albert I, which now stands in Antwerp’s city park. The ever topical text on the pedestal, ‘Pray for those who through their deaths have left a lesson of willpower and strength not only to the young but to the whole nation<\/em>‘, is based on the Bible book par excellence that deals with rebellion against the occupier (2 Macc. 6:31).<\/p>\n

Yet the monument does not yet reveal its secrets. The question remains whether it was only erected in memory of the “Great War”.<\/p>\n

Be sure to explore the numerous religious statues in the surrounding streets. The Paardenmarkt is home to, among others, a large Calvary group<\/strong> in the garden, a statue of Mary<\/strong> on the fa\u00e7ade of the presbytery and, at n\u00b0 89, the statue ‘Our Lady with Child<\/strong>‘. And pay a visit to the Chapel of Our Lady of Good Success (left of the entrance).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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‘De pastoor zwijgt niet’<\/strong> (‘The priest won’t shut up<\/em>‘) tells the story of pastor Bernaerts<\/strong> who was twice imprisoned by the Germans during the war. His courageous resistance against the occupier is illustrated with newspaper material from Groningen. You can also admire his painted portrait and the ciborium and paten that he received in gratitude from the parishioners.<\/p>\n

A large list shows all names of parishioners who died or were involved in the war. We know the story of some of them. What secret the war memorial holds can only be revealed on the spot.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The gable statues<\/strong> have their own story: the commemoration in 1914 of their reinstatement 100 years earlier, in 1814 after the French domination, was celebrated with … a penitential procession<\/strong> …. because of the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\"\"<\/a>Although the beguinage church has no direct link with the “Great War”, you can enjoy the evening atmosphere in the church and the beguinage and drift away to beautiful organ music.<\/p>\n

Be sure to discover the centuries-old statues<\/strong> in the beguinage, the statue of Saint Begga on the entrance gate and nearby the beautiful Madonna statues of the Ossenmarkt and Pieter van Hobokenstraat 26 (18th century).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\"\"<\/a>Come and enjoy an evocation of spiritual warfare songs<\/strong> to the music of well-known songs that were sung in our church during the “Great War”. They were specially published in book form at the time. A true discovery.
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