Bruges - Holy Blood with Roger Vangheluwe 1

MokumTV goes to Bruges. What Amsterdam is for Holland, that is Bruges for Belgium: the country's most popular tourist destination. And the day the Holy Blood is paraded through the city by Mgr. Roger Vangheluwe is the most important event on the Bruges cultural and religious calendar.

Legend has it that after the Crucifixion, Joseph of Arimathea wiped blood from the body of Christ and preserved the cloth.

There was a rock-crystal vial with Holy Blood in the extensive collection of relics of the Byzantine Emperor. It was lost when Constantinople (todays Istanbul) was sacked by the Crusader army of Count of Flanders Baldwin IX in 1204. After this Fourth Crusade. Baldwin IX probably sent the Holy Blood, looted from the Byzantines, to Bruges. The first historical record to mention the Holy Blood in Bruges dates from 1256.
The Bruges-legend claims that it came direct from Jerusalem with the Second Crusade. It is told that the King of Jerusalem Baldwin III gave it to his brother-in-law, Count of Flanders Diederik van de Elzas. The Bruges mythe as written down in 1256 sets as date that the count arrived with his bottle of blood on April 7, 1150. A clever act to pevent any Byzantine claims as it was stolen, although the manner in which the rock-crystal vial is cut indicates its origin is Constantinople.
Ever since the Blood arrived in Bruges, it has been the subject of great veneration and is acclaimed to made Bruges one of the wealthiest cities of northern Europe in the Middle Ages
The tradition of the procession is first recorded in 1291. Every year on Ascension Day in the spring it followed a route around the city walls. Until 1578.
That year the protestant religious wars necessitated its relocation to the city center, and it is this route that is still followed today, when residents dress in elaborate costumes to accompany the shrine.

There are several parts to the procession. This is the opening or prelude to the first tableaux and floats enacts scenes from the Bible/

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[pieter615]

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