Enjoy the views from the top of the Belfort tower or marvel at the architectural beauty of the Basiliek van het Heilig-Bloed. So much to see, so much to do, so much to enjoy! Bruges offers it all! Below we list the best and most important in random order , just to get you started Go aboard at any of the five landing stages for a half-hour trip that allows you to appreciate the most noteworthy delights of the city from a completely different angle.
Click HERE. It is also famous for its 3,2 km long underground pipeline. Daily tours on the brewery are organized, at the end of which visitors are offered a free glass of Brugse Zot blond beer. Although the Flemish Primitives are the highlight, you will also marvel at top 18th and 19th-century neoclassical pieces, masterpieces from Flemish Expressionism and post-war modern art. Belfort tower This tower stands 83 metres tall. Take on the challenge of steps climbing the tower!
Your efforts will be rewarded with a breath-taking view of Bruges and surroundings. The romance between Minna and her warrior love Stromberg has evolved into local legend saying that you will experience eternal love if you walk over the lake bridge with your partner. This is an exceptionally romantic spot. Museum Choco-Story Cacao has been tickling our taste buds for ages.
History, tasting, workshops and much more. Young or old, passionate chocoholic or simply interested: the Chocolate Museum will stimulate your fascination. The church, dedicated to Our Lady and Saint Basil in the 12th century and a basilica since , consists of a lower church that has maintained its Romanesque character and a neo-Gothic upper church, in which the relic of the Holy Blood is preserved.
The renovated treasury, with numerous valuable works of art, is also worth a visit. The 'Princely Beguinage Ten Wijngaarde' was founded in This little piece of world heritage was once the home of the beguines, emancipated women who led a pious and celibate life. Today the beguinage is inhabited by nuns of the Order of St. You can still get a good idea of how life was like in the 17th century.
Old St. It was a place where sick pilgrims and travellers were cared for. Often also temporary expositions on the site. He had been anointed again on the day of his death, after he had contracted congestion of the lungs. Aloysius Sturzo as Master of Novices. He spent one year of Humanities at Roehampton, London, and studied philosophy at Laval in France and then taught at Clongowes from till He did his theological studies at St.
On his return to Ireland he taught at Belvedere College til , when he made his third year's probation in Tullabeg, being at the same time Socius to Fr. William Sutton, Master of Novices. During the following two years he was Minister at Milltown Park, and from to was on the teaching staff of the Junior House, Belvedere College.
In the latter year he went to Tullabeg as Minister and Socius, posts which he held till the summer of After spending a year at Crescent College, Limerick, as Minister, he again taught at Belvedere and at Mungret, where he was Spiritual Father as well. After a two years period at Rathfarnham Castle as Minister, under Fr. John Sullivan as Rector, he was transferred to St. Francis Xavier's, Gardiner Street, in , and remained there till Two of Fr. Campbell's brothers were Benedictine priests, both of whom predeceased him.
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One of these, Dom Ildephonsus Campbell. An old Belvederian, who knew Fr. Campbell well, the Most Rev. Outwardly those year's were not spectacular. They marked the even succession of ordinary tasks faithfully and even meticulously performed, as is the case in so many Jesuit lives. Campbell was a religious of remarkable devotion to duty, of a regularity out of the common, faithful and punctilious to a fault, sincere in his friendships, which were deep and lasting. Behind a brusqueness of speech and manner, which to casual acquaintances seemed gruffness, was an eager and almost hypersensitive soul, around which his iron will, bent on self conquest, had erected a rampart of fictitious asperity.
All through his life, this sensitiveness, securely screened from casual observation by his manner, was his greatest cross. Campbell had a very special talent for dealing with young schoolboys. He could inspire them with a lofty idealism in all that pertained to truth, duty and loyalty, and employed many ingenious ways of stirring them to class-rivalry.
Without any conscious effort he won their abiding affection, while instilling in their young hearts a solidly Catholic outlook which rendered them proof against the storms of later life. On several occasions his pupils of the Junior House, Belvedere College, have left on record the feelings of regard and affection which they had for him. Byrne, later Most Rev. From a few of his pupils of ' Another, undated.
Campbell, the very kind attention shown by you to us during the past two years was so considerate that the boys cannot refrain from offering you this small token of affectionate gratitude. The same zeal and devotion which characterised his dealings in the class-room were maintained in all spheres of Fr. Campbell's labours, most especially during the long period in the priestly ministry which he spent at Gardiner Street. Despite his growing infirmities he was ever at his post of duty, whether in the pulpit or confessional, at the sick bed or in the parlour, at his own prie-dieu in his room or the little table in the Domestic Chapel giving the Community his Exhortation as Spiritual Father.
The Long Vacation the boys spoke of has come for him at last, and his mortal remains lie in the exact spot he had hoped would be free for him, just inside the railing of the Society Burial Plot, only a few feet from the grave in which his father and mother lie.
Campbell, Joseph, , Jesuit brother. Brother Campbell was born on All Saints' Day, , at Wicklow, and entered the noviceship, after the usual term as postulant, on 9th October, , at Tullabeg, where Fr. John Colgan was his Rector and Novice-Master. In he began his long career as cook and dispenser a post he filled with exemplary fidelity for nearly forty years.
A man of powerful physique and rude health, he consecrated to this life-work every ounce of energy he possessed, and the self-sacrificing devotion with which he addressed himself to the work in kitchen and pantry will have earned for him a high place in heaven. Of charming gaiety, gentle and kind in manner and speech, his good humour and patience were never seen to better advantage than when a spur or admonition had to be administered to novice or helper on the kitchen experiment. Most of the houses of the Province benefitted by the example of his edifying life and skill in the culinary art most especially Belvedere, Galway and Tullabeg.
In when at Galway, he began to show the first signs of a serious break-down in health, and, though he continued working to the best of his powers after a term spent in St. Bride's Nursing Home, he had to be relieved of the responsibilities of cook. In he was transferred to Tullabeg, and during the last years of his life he continued to help in the scullery whenever his failing powers permitted, being by temper and constitution as well as habit impatient of inaction.
His last infirmity he bore with exemplary patience and sweetness. The end came suddenly in the forenoon of 6th August, shortly before Fr. Rector was due to leave for a retreat at Loughrea. Socius celebrated the Requiem Mass in the People's Church which was attended by a very large crowd of externs, chiefly retainers of the College, who had come to know and venerate him during his long association with Tullaheg. Brady, John, , Jesuit priest. Many former colleagues, Jesuits and friends were there to celebrate his achievement.
He said it was mainly during his time that the college moved from being a college of adult education to a mainline third-level institution. He also oversaw the employment of lay staff along with Jesuits. He may have had a vow of poverty, but he understood money. After all he is an economist! John Brady is somebody who has made an immense contribution to developing this college and bringing the National College of Ireland to its present position, and it is right that we should acknowledge this contribution in a tangible way.
John Brady is a northside Dubliner. He was educated at Kostka College in Clontarf. He entered the Society of Jesus in Following two years of novitiate at Emo he continued his studies of economics and history at University College Dublin where he graduated in Three years of the study of philosophy followed at Tullabeg, after which he spent four years teaching at Crescent College in Limerick and Belvedere College.
He then went to Milltown Park to study theology and was ordained there in He came to this college in ; at that time it was known as the National College of industrial Relations and was located in Ranelagh. He would remain a member of the college staff for thirty years. In he was appointed Director of the College and he held that position for ten years. John Brady was a moderniser. During his time as Director NCIR made the transition from being primarily a college of adult education to becoming a mainline third-level college.
The College had opened as the Catholic Workers College in , and it developed from the skills and contacts of a small and remarkable group of Jesuits in the s and s. Most of them were still at the College when John joined the staff. He built on the tradition they had established. He consolidated relations with the social partners, and the National College of Industrial Relations became a meeting point for unions and management. John Brady helped to make it very much a crossroads and a good place for what we now call networking.
The College built up a unique niche for itself in industrial relations nationally. John had the diplomatic skills to enable the College to maintain good relations and respect with both sides of industry, no mean achievement in the Ireland of that time. The traditional links with the trade union movement which had been there from the beginning were built on further , and in addition the College became a nationally recognised centre of excellence for teaching what was then referred to as personnel management, and what is today called human resource management.
That was the point at which the College made the transition to becoming a third level institution. This was a major breakthrough because there were at that time many, including a number of influential public servants, who were reluctant to see private colleges like this college achieving state recognition. Under John planning also began on the next phase, which was the move upwards to degree work which took place in the s. While John was the driver in transforming the College into a third level institution and meeting all the quality inputs, demands and targets that this required, it was also a priority for him that the College would not neglect its roots and that its newly acquired status would not choke the important role which it had always given to access, to looking after those who were often overlooked by the rest of the higher education system.
For him the commitment to access, to ensuring that people could have a second chance at achieving their potential, was something of a mission. He ensured that this would remain a college where so far as possible every individual, regardless of what their previous educational history had been, would be afforded an opportunity to develop their full potential.