Inside the Basilica of the Holy Blood

This Bruges basilica is home to frescoes depicting church history, from the time of Christ to the Renaissance. Church fathers believe and maintain that the relic of a cloth with Christ's blood was taken from Jerusalem by crusaders in the twelfth century and brough back in a vial to Bruges, where it rests to this day.

Welch, Claude Emerson

State University of New York at Buffalo

1996-05

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Bruges, Belgium

Flemish

2007-07-13

Welch-Ludwig Collection

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