Tongerlo Abbey is a Premonstratensian monastery at Tongerlo in Westerlo near Antwerp, Belgium. It was founded in 1128 in honour of the Blessed Virgin...
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the city of Herentals. Tongerlo is best known for Tongerlo Abbey founded in 1128 which became one of the most important abbeys of Belgium. In 1128, the...
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(c. 1520) and is on display in the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of the Tongerlo Abbey, Belgium. A study for The Last Supper from Leonardo's notebooks shows...
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Premonstratensians (section Abbeys)
printing (Averbode Abbey, Tongerlo Abbey, Berne Abbey), farming (Kinshasa, Ireland, Postel Abbey), forestry (Schlägl Abbey, Geras Abbey, Slovakia), and cheese-making...
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1970s. Tongerlo Abbey contains a very old and fine copy of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper. It is also known as home of the Tongerlo Abbey beer, but...
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Habsburg governor of the Low Countries in 1788, the work continued at Tongerlo Abbey. After the creation of the Kingdom of Belgium, the Bollandists were...
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was a Premonstratensian spiritual author, missionary, and abbot of Tongerlo Abbey. In the last capacity he sat in the First Estate of the States of Brabant...
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Essen, Belgium (section Abbey of Tongerlo)
In 1159, Berner van Rijsbergen granted Essen as an allodium to Tongerlo Abbey. The abbey shared lordship rights with the Dukes of Brabant. Essen, along...
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names in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, including Tongeren, Tongerlo Abbey, and Tongelre. In a comment in his book Germania, Tacitus remarks that...
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Countries. Their library was acquired by the Premonstratensians of Tongerlo Abbey, who endeavored to carry on the work. The fifty-third volume was published...
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