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Sint-Truiden Abbey

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Sint-Truiden Abbey

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  • Location: Sint-Truiden, Hasselt, South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

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    October 3, 2023

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    1000 years of building history

    Together with the guide you climb the abbey tower and visit the crypt.
    Trudo, the nobleman who built a church and monastery around 650, turned …
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    May 19, 2023

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    At the base of the abbey of Sint-Truiden was a monastery, a community of monks, founded around 655 by Saint Trudo in the town of Sarchinium (Zerkingen; referred to as …
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    June 30, 2024

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    Around the middle of the 7th century, St. Trudo founded a monastery on a small hill in the middle of the present-day town. A settlement soon grew up around the monastery, which amassed great wealth thanks to the many pilgrims who flocked to St. Trudo's grave. Abbot Adelardus had a large abbey church and several smaller churches built in the 11th century. He had the place surrounded by a wooden palisade and had the gates reinforced. In 1129, a stone wall replaced the palisade (Wikipedia).
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    Location: Sint-Truiden, Hasselt, South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

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