{"id":53283,"date":"2021-08-20T11:38:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T09:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/topa.be\/sint-pauluskerk\/beschrijving\/spk-historic-context\/"},"modified":"2021-11-07T12:48:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T11:48:57","slug":"historische-context","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/topa.be\/en\/sint-pauluskerk\/beschrijving\/historische-context\/","title":{"rendered":"SPK Historic context"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Saint Paul\u2019s, the Antwerp Dominican church, a revelation<\/h2>\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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How history can be read from one monument...<\/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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<\/td>\nGENERAL HISTORY<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\nSAINT PAULS\u2019S CHURCH HISTORY<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Jesus\u2019 birth in Bethlehem<\/td>\n4 BC<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saul\u2019s birth (\u2018Paul\u2019)<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jesus crucified in Jerusalem<\/p>\n

the apostles spread Jesus\u2019\u2019 message<\/td>\n

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Saul (Paul) persecutes Christians,<\/p>\n

on his way to Damascus he converts to Christianity<\/td>\n

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Paul dies a martyr in Rome<\/td>\nca. 65<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
edict of Milan: freedom of worship for Christians<\/td>\n313<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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missionaries in the Low Countries<\/td>\n7th<\/sup>\u00a0century<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
raids by the Vikings<\/td>\n837<\/td>\nchurch in the borough devoted to Saints Amand and \u00a0Eloy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dominicus de Guzm\u00e1n<\/td>\n1171-1221<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1183<\/td>\nchurch in the borough devoted to Saint Walburga<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
foundation of the Dominican Order<\/td>\n1216<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1243<\/td>\nDominicans settle in the Prekersstraat (Preacher\u2019s street)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1256<\/td>\nDominicans move to Hugo Nose\u2019s plot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1262-1276<\/td>\nconstruction of first convent church in gothic style<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1276<\/td>\nchurch consecrated by Albertus Magnus o.p.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1444<\/td>\nconstruction of a covered market mainly for jewellers and silver smiths<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Christophus Columbus in America<\/td>\n1492<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nca. 1512<\/td>\nstart of the present Saint Paul\u2019s church<\/p>\n

(Domien de Waghemakere?)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Martin Luther proclaims his theses in Wittenberg<\/td>\n1517<\/td>\nchurchyard gate at Veemarkt \u2013 Zwartzustersstraat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Council of Trent<\/td>\n1545-1563<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1549<\/td>\nnave of the first convent church pulled down<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1550<\/td>\ncovered market pulled down<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
founding of the Antwerp diocese<\/td>\n1559<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1565<\/td>\nfounding of the Brotherhood of the Sweet Name of Jesus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Iconoclast Fury<\/td>\n1566<\/td>\ninterior destroyed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
naval battle at Lepanto: Ottoman Turks defeated<\/td>\n1571<\/td>\nconsecration of the church by Godfried van Mierlo o.p.<\/p>\n

founding of the Brotherhood of the Rosary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Calvinist Rule in Antwerp<\/td>\n1577-1585<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1579<\/td>\nconvent partly requisitioned, Dominicans expulsed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Catholic worship \u2018suspended\u2019<\/td>\n1581<\/td>\nchurch requisitioned by Calvinists: \u2018purification\u2019 of the interior<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1583<\/td>\nconvent is parcelled out: laying of two streets<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Farnese reconquers Antwerp for Spain\u2019s lawful authorities<\/td>\n1585<\/p>\n

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Dominicans return, church is consecrated again for Catholic worship<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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reconstruction of the cloisters<\/p>\n

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<\/td>\nca. 1609<\/td>\nThe ecclesiastical dispute of the Holy Sacrament<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Nativity<\/em> (Peter Paul Rubens)C<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Cycle of Paintings The Mysteries of the Rosary<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\n1616<\/td>\nVision of Saint Dominic<\/em>\u00a0(Peter Paul Rubens)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nca. 1618-1634<\/td>\n(further) construction of transepts and choir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nca. 1632-1638<\/td>\nchoir stalls (Jean de Jupploye?)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1650<\/td>\naltar of the Rosary (Sebastiaan de Neve)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1654-1655<\/td>\nchoir screen, altar of the Holy Cross, altar of Saint Dominic (Pieter I Verbruggen)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1654-1658<\/td>\norgan (Nicolaes Van Haegen)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1655-1657<\/td>\ncommunion rails (Sebastiaan de Neve)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1656<\/td>\naltar of the Holy Sacrament (Pieter I Verbruggen)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1657-1659<\/td>\nconfessionals and wainscoting (Pieter I Verbruggen?)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1662<\/td>\nwestern corridor of the cloisters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1670<\/td>\nbishop Capello consecrates the high altar (Pieter I and II Verbruggen)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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paintings series\u00a0Naval battle of Lepanto<\/em>\u00a0(Jan Peeters)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1679<\/td>\nlightning destroys roofs, crossing tower, fa\u00e7ade, vaultings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1680-1682<\/td>\nconstruction of Baroque tower (Nicolaes Millich)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1684<\/td>\nconfessional (Willem I Kerricx)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1688<\/td>\npillar throne for Our Lady\u2019s statue (Willem I Kerricx)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1697-1707<\/td>\nCalvary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nuntil 1741<\/td>\nCalvary garden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1700-1720<\/td>\napostle statues (Michiel I van der Voort)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1720-1722<\/td>\nchoir organ (Jean-Baptist Forceville)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1783<\/td>\nJoseph II of Austria requisitions\u00a0Our Lady of the Rosary<\/em>\u00a0by Caravaggio<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joseph II of Austria: prohibition to bury inside churches<\/td>\n1784<\/td>\nStuivenberg graveyard for the Saint Walburga parish<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joseph II of Austria: abolition of brotherhoods<\/td>\n1786<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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French Revolution<\/td>\n1789<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Southern Low Countries occupied and<\/p>\n

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1794<\/td>\n1794 church silver is sold for war taxes and Rubens\u2019, Van Dyck\u2019s and Jordaens\u2019 works are requisitioned for the Louvre<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
annexed by France<\/p>\n

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<\/td>\nsept. 1796<\/td>\nconvent abolished, church closed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
churches nationalized by the French<\/td>\n1797<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n(3-5) 1797<\/td>\nconvent and church bought by ex-prior Cornelius Peltiers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
concordat Pius VII \u2013 Napoleon Bonaparte<\/td>\n1801<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Antwerp diocese abolished<\/td>\n1802<\/td>\nCity takes over the church as a parish church<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n22\/04\/1803<\/td>\nfather Alexander Stordeur o.p. appointed as first parish priest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n22\/08\/1804<\/td>\nCity buys the church as a parish church<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEarly 19th cent.<\/td>\nbaptistery in the Calvary garden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dutch Rule<\/td>\n1814-1830<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Napoleon defeated at the battle of Waterloo<\/td>\n18\/06\/1815<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stolen paintings return from Paris<\/td>\n1815-1816<\/td>\nmost paintings return from Paris<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1816-1817<\/td>\nramshackle Saint Walburga Church is pulled down.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1817<\/td>\nPrior Peltiers offers the convent to the committee of church wardens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Indepence of Belgium<\/td>\n1830<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bombarding of Antwerp by the Durch<\/td>\n27\/10\/1830<\/td>\nstained glass windows destroyed by bombardment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1833<\/td>\nchoir screen pulled down;<\/p>\n

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<\/td>\n1834<\/td>\ncommunion rails re-arranged;<\/p>\n

wainscoting Sweet Name of Jesus;<\/p>\n

confessional Willem I Kerricx removed to the southern transept<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nca. 1850<\/td>\nclosed corridor of the cloisters arranged as wedding chapel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1854<\/td>\nallotment of convent garden: Sint-Paulusstraat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1859-1862<\/td>\ngate Sint-Paulusstraat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1865<\/td>\n\u2018lion gates\u2019 (Jean-Baptiste van Rooy, Gerard Van der Linden)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1874<\/td>\npulpit (Jean-Baptist de Boeck and Jean Baptist van Wint)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1888-1889<\/td>\nStations of the Cross in the cloisters (Jean-Baptist de Boeck and Jean Baptist van Wint)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1895-1901<\/td>\nrestoration of roof and fa\u00e7ade: gable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
First World War<\/td>\n1914-1918<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1916<\/td>\nparish priest Van Bostraeten imprisoned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1939<\/td>\nlisted as a monument<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Second World Ware<\/td>\n1940-1945<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1943<\/td>\ntwo bells stolen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\n1955<\/td>\norchestra masses start again<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Antwerp diocese founded anew<\/td>\n1961<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1968 2\/3 april<\/td>\nfire destroys convent, tower and church roofs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1977-1982<\/td>\nrestoration of the tower (Louis Williame)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1987-1988<\/td>\nrestoration of the roof(Louis Williame)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1991-1993<\/td>\nrestoration of the exterior (Louis Williame)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1994-1998<\/td>\nrestoration of the interior (Rutger Steenmeijer)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1998<\/td>\ncloisters and presbytery are sold<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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