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84The Holy Blood of Bruges, a New Jerusalem
The Holy Blood of Christ seems to have turned medieval Bruges (in Flanders, Belgium) into a Holy City. It's what, since the 19th century, made tourism popular in Bruges. But maybe this Holy City is not as holy as it seems...
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79The Magdalene Line of Kathleen McGowan
I've just spent three days in Belgium with Kathleen McGowan, author of "The Expected One" and "The Book of Love". So don't think this is a literary review or something. It's always tricky to write a review...
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71Mysteries of the Mystic Lamb
The famous Ghent Altarpiece or the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, completed in 1432 by Flemish Primitive Jan Van Eyck, is surrounded by many mysteries concerning the Holy Blood & the Holy Grail... They are the reasons why a panel got stolen, the thiefs were killed and the Nazi's got interested in the masterpiece...
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71Dear Mister AntiChrist
This message is an answer to your article Is Barack Hussein Obama the Antichrist of the End Time? Let me start with a quote of yours:"For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do...
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64Greatest Obama Is AntiChrist LOL of the Year
No Hate Rants here! Just tell us which are the Most Ridiculous so-called "arguments" you ever heard of, to "unmask" Barack Hussein Obama as being the AntiChrist. Or even better: just tell us where the fictions is and which "facts" were falsified!
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75The Angels of Mons
In 1930, the British newspaper The Daily News had a story about angels fighting on the side of the British troops during the retreat from Mons, in August 1914...
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75Joris-Karl Huysmans and the Essence of Decadence
The French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans started his career as a naturalist, but with "A Rebours" ("Against Nature") he wrote "the bible of decadence" and with "Down There" a history of satanism, facts turned...
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83The Holy Sepulchre of Bruges-la-Morte
Visiting the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Bruges-La-Morte, the Venice of the North, is a strange and morbid experience. Not only because the Holy Grave is to be found here, or a statue of the dead Christ,...
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71The Medieval Procession of Penance at Furnes
An 1908 article in The New York Times says that he Belgian city of Furnes (Veurne) celebrates a Medieval Procession of Penance or Penitence, and this for more than 500 years... But why are the 12th century origins of the Procession erased from the modern Belgian records?
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65Up There, With Joris-Karl Huysmans
From the black magic and the occult horror of "Là-bas" (translated as "Down There" or "The Damned"), for the French "decadent" writer Joris-Karl Huysmans arose a vision of a new field of research: the...
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