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Averbode Abbey, the Glossary

Averbode Abbey is a Premonstratensian abbey situated in Averbode, in the municipality Scherpenheuvel-Zichem (Flemish Brabant), in the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels in Belgium.^[1]

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1130s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
12th-century establishments in Belgium
1672 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
Christian monasteries in Flemish Brabant
Premonstratensian monasteries in Belgium
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1672

Aarschot

Aarschot is a city and municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in Flanders, Belgium.

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Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Arnold II, Count of Looz

Arnold II (or Arnulf, Arnoul) (died 1146), Count of Loon, son of Arnold I, Count of Loon, and Agnes von Mainz, daughter of Gerhard I, Count of Rieneck, and Helwig von Bliescastel.

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Averbode (publisher)

Uitgeverij Averbode is a Belgian publisher of books, comics, and magazines.

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Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe.

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Beeldenstorm in Dutch and Bildersturm in German (roughly translatable from both languages as 'attack on the images or statues') are terms used for outbreaks of destruction of religious images that occurred in Europe in the 16th century, known in English as the Great Iconoclasm or Iconoclastic Fury and in French as the Furie iconoclaste.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Brabant Revolution

The Brabant Revolution or Brabantine Revolution (Révolution brabançonne, Brabantse Omwenteling), sometimes referred to as the Belgian Revolution of 1789–1790 in older writing, was an armed insurrection that occurred in the Austrian Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) between October 1789 and December 1790.

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Brasschaat

Brasschaat is a municipality located in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of Antwerp.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Bubonic plague

Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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Church treasury

A church treasury or church treasure is the collection of historical art treasures belonging to a church, usually a cathedral or monastery (monastery treasure).

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County of Loon

The County of Loon was a county in the Holy Roman Empire, which corresponded approximately with the modern Belgian province of Limburg.

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Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Diest

Diest is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.

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Duchy of Brabant

The Duchy of Brabant, a state of the Holy Roman Empire, was established in 1183.

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Duke of Aarschot

The Duke of Aarschot (or Aerschot) was one of the most important aristocratic titles in the Low Countries, named after the Brabantian city of Aarschot.

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Edward Poppe

Edward Poppe (18 December 1890 – 10 June 1924) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest who advocated for the frequent reception of the sacraments and established a children's league dedicated to the Eucharist; he was a strong critic of Marxism and materialism as well as rampant secularism in his region.

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Eucharist

The Eucharist (from evcharistía), also known as Holy Communion, the Blessed Sacrament and the Lord's Supper, is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches, and as an ordinance in others.

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Evangeliary of Averbode

The Evangeliary of Averbode (Évangéliaire d'Averbode) is an illuminated manuscript, an evangeliary created in the region of the Meuse river between 1150 and 1175.

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Flanders

Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium.

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Flanders Heritage Agency

The Flanders Heritage Agency (agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed') is a cultural heritage agency sponsored by the Flemish Government.

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Flemish Brabant

Flemish Brabant (Vlaams-Brabant; Brabant flamand) is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium.

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Godfrey III, Count of Louvain

Godfrey III (Godfried; 1142 – 21 August 1190) was count of Louvain (or Leuven), landgrave of Brabant, margrave of Antwerp, and duke of Lower Lorraine (as Godfrey VIII) from 1142 to his death.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

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Gregorius Thiels

Gregorius Thiels, O Praem., was the 43rd abbot of Averbode Abbey, the last before the French Revolution.

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Grimbergen Abbey

Grimbergen Abbey is a Premonstratensian monastery in Grimbergen, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, established in 1128 in the place of an earlier foundation of Augustinian Canons. Averbode Abbey and Grimbergen Abbey are Christian monasteries in Flemish Brabant and Premonstratensian monasteries in Belgium.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, 10,000 square meters (10,000 m2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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House of Merode

The House of Merode is one of the most prominent families of the Belgian nobility.

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Issoudun

Issoudun is a commune in the Indre department, administrative region of Centre-Val de Loire, France.

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Jaú

Jaú is a municipality in the center of the state of São Paulo, in Brazil.

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Jaguarão

Jaguarão is a municipality in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul located on the shores of the Jaguarão River, bordering Uruguay.

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Jan van den Eynde II

Jan van den Eynde II (1620 – 1702) was a Flemish architect and sculptor.

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KU Leuven

KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium.

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Lucas Faydherbe

Lucas Faydherbe (also spelled Lucas Faijdherbe; he signed as Lucas Fayd'herbe) (Mechelen, 19 January 1617 – Mechelen, 31 December 1697) was a Flemish sculptor and architect who played a major role in the development of the High Baroque in the Southern Netherlands.

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Missionaries of the Sacred Heart

The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (MSC; Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis; Missionnaires du Sacré-Coeur) are a missionary congregation in the Catholic Church.

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Mosan art

Mosan art is a regional style of art from the valley of the Meuse in present-day Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany.

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Novitiate

The novitiate, also called the noviciate, is the period of training and preparation that a Christian novice (or prospective) monastic, apostolic, or member of a religious order undergoes prior to taking vows in order to discern whether they are called to vowed religious life.

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Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Oxford Art Online

Oxford Art Online is an Oxford University Press online gateway into art research, which was launched in 2008.

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Parish

A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese.

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Petrópolis

Petrópolis, also known as The Imperial City, is a municipality in the Southeast Region of Brazil.

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Piracicaba

Piracicaba is a city located in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.

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Pirapora

Pirapora is a municipality in northcentral Minas Gerais in Brazil.

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Pope Pius X

Pope Pius X (Pio X; born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 to his death in August 1914.

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Postel Abbey

Postel Abbey is a Premonstratensian abbey in the Belgian municipality of Mol in the province of Antwerp. Averbode Abbey and Postel Abbey are Premonstratensian monasteries in Belgium.

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Premonstratensians

The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré, also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines and, in Britain and Ireland, as the White Canons (from the colour of their habit), is a religious order of canons regular of the Catholic Church founded in Prémontré near Laon in 1120 by Norbert of Xanten, who later became Archbishop of Magdeburg.

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Renaissance architecture

Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mechelen–Brussels

The Archdiocese of Mechelen–Brussels (Archidioecesis Mechliniensis–Bruxellensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Belgium.

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Salto, São Paulo

Salto is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil.

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Scherpenheuvel-Zichem

Scherpenheuvel-Zichem (Montaigu-Zichem) is a city and municipality located in the province of Flemish Brabant, Flemish Region, Belgium, encompassing the towns of Averbode, Messelbroek, Okselaar, Scherpenheuvel, Schoonderbuken, Keiberg, Kaggevinne, Testelt and Zichem (previously spelled Sichem, like the biblical town).

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Schoten

Schoten is a municipality located in Antwerp Province, Belgium.

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Seminary

A seminary, school of theology, theological college, or divinity school is an educational institution for educating students (sometimes called seminarians) in scripture and theology, generally to prepare them for ordination to serve as clergy, in academics, or mostly in Christian ministry.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averbode_Abbey

Also known as Abbey of Averbode.

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Averbode Abbey, the Glossary

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1130s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire

12th-century establishments in Belgium

1672 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire

Christian monasteries in Flemish Brabant

Premonstratensian monasteries in Belgium

Religious buildings and structures completed in 1672

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