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The village on the hill...

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Memorial to the 1965 plane crash when 4 Polish crew members lost their lives here.

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Beautiful, shady bike path

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Beautiful Chapel, unfortunately the crypt is closed

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Very little is known with certainty about Saint Quentin, patron saint of Gelinden. According to legend, he was born in Rome in the middle of the 3rd century and was part of a senatorial family. He went on a missionary journey of conversion in Gaul and settled in Amiens. During the persecution of Christians by Emperor Diocletian, Quintinus was captured and taken to Saint-Quentin. He was a deacon and was flogged there, tortured on the rack, pierced with iron pins and finally beheaded, together with two other deacons. His body was thrown into the river Somme. Assistance from the saint is requested for convulsions, headaches, coughs and rheumatism. His commemoration day is on 31 October.

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Classical church, located within the former churchyard, now converted into a lawn. Three-aisled church with half-built-in west tower, three-aisled nave of three bays, choir to the east of one straight bay and flat closure; sacristies to the south and north. Mainly late-classical building from 1791 with the exception of the west tower, rebuilt in 1873 to a design by architect H. Jaminé. Brick construction with the use of limestone. Heavy, half-built-in, neoclassical west tower with two sections, delineated by corner bands, and crowning, constricted spire (slate). Arched, central door to the west flanked by pilasters under an entablature and triangular pediment. Profiled, arched upper window with extended sill. Transition to the narrower second section by means of a wide cornice and blind, bevelled attic between pedestals with ornamental vases as a screen for the adjacent, slate lean-to roofs (north and south facades). High round-arched sound holes in profiled frames in each tower wall. Elaborate bluestone cornice with scaffolding holes. Blind west facades of the aisles, enlivened by large mirrors with quarter-round recessed corners. Sober elevation of the nave under a large saddle roof (artificial slates). In the northern and southern facades, four arched windows in flat frames with trapezoidal keystones and a negative block at half height of the posts. Lower choir under a hipped saddle roof. On the north and south sides, a semicircular window (brick on bluestone sill) with metal fan. Similar but closed window in the east facade. In the northern and southern sacristies, under hipped saddle roofs (artificial slates), barred segmental arch windows with trapezoidal keystone and a negative block halfway between the posts. Late-classical interior with baroque furniture from the monastery of the shod Carmelites in Huy. Ceilinged central and side aisles. Circulating cornice directly supported by marbled, composite pillars with simplified capital (central aisle) or ditto pilasters (side aisles). Wide round-arched triumphal arch. Ceilinged choir; northern and southern walls enlivened with pilasters that support the profiled arch niche of the semicircular windows. Rectangular doors in flat frames of bluestone, leading to the mentioned sacristies. Inventory of Immovable Heritage: Parish Church of Saint-Quintinus, https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/23119

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beautiful chapel with a lot of name and fame

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