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  Basilica of the Sacré CÅ“ur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the basilica with the same French name in Belgium, see Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Belgium.
The Basilica of the Sacré Cœur ( Sacred Heart) is a Parisian Roman Catholic church and landmark, crowning the butte Montmartre ('Montmartre hill'), the highest point in Paris.
Sacré Cœur is built of Château-Landon (Seine-et-Marne) stone, a frost-resistant travertine that constantly weathers out its calcite, so that it bleaches with age to a chalky whiteness.
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 Basilica of the Sacred Heart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Several basilicas are called Basilica of the Sacred Heart :
the Basilica of the Sacred Heart or Basilica of the Sacré Coeur, in Paris, France
the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Newark, New Jersey
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 travels-web.com Destination Guide: attractions of Brussels, Belgium
The Basilica was built to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Belgian independence.
Belgium also built a colonial pavilion to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Congo freestate.
In medieval Belgium, traders and craftsmen formed groups known as guilds in order to set standards for their craft and establish a trade monopoly in their geographic area.
travels-web.com /guide/BrusselsBelgiumattractions.shtml   (3946 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The beatification rite, which took place at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, has enabled us to be associated with these great figures of the Church and with their witness to Christ.
The afternoon meeting, held in the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels, was as it were a thanksgiving for the beatification expressed by the Congregations of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, who are present in various countries of the world.
Belgium is a constitutional monarchy and the Belgian royal family is an indelible part of the nation's history and also that of Europe.
library.catholic.org /papaldoc/papaldoc143.txt   (1094 words)

  
 Brussels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brussels ( Dutch : Brussel, French : Bruxelles, German : Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium and is considered by many to be the headquarters of the European Union, as two of its four main institutions have their headquarters in the city.
Brussels is first of all a city located in the centre of Belgium and its capital, but it sometimes also refers to the largest municipality of the Brussels-Capital Region.
Regions are one component of Belgium's complex institutions, the three communities being "the" other component: the Brussels inhabitants must deal with either the Flemish Community or the French (speaking) community for matters such as culture and education.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brussels   (2053 words)

  
 Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Belgium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart or Koekelberg Basilica ( French : Basilique du Sacré-Coeur or Basilique de Koekelberg, Dutch : Basiliek van het Heilig Hart or Basiliek van Koekelberg) is the fifth largest church in the world, and is located in Brussels, Belgium.
This basilica is located on the territory of the Koekelberg municipality.
The Art Deco church is 89m high and 167m long.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Basilica_of_the_Sacred_Heart,_Belgium   (130 words)

  
 CT: Local Area Attractions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, known to many local citizens affectionately as the "Conewago Chapel," is famous both for its beauty and its importance in local and religious history.
This minor basilica was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in January of 1975.
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is considered to be the mother church of many area parishes and mission stations.
www.ccpa.net /conewago/cwp/view.asp?a=3&Q=468114&conewagoNav=|28360|   (399 words)

  
 Basilica of St. Francis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sometime in the 1st century BC a temple of Minerva, the Roman goddess of art, handicrafts and the professions, was constructed at the sacred spring.
The Basilica of San Francesco, one of Italy's foremost monuments, was built between 1228 and 1253 AD.
The entire town and particularly the Basilica have a definite atmosphere of peacefulness that awakens and stimulates that same characteristic in the human heart.
www.sacredsites.com /europe/italy/assisi.html   (623 words)

  
 Brussels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Brussels is first of all a city located in the middle of Belgium and its capital, but it sometimes also refers to the largest municipality of the Brussels-Capital Region.
On 4 September 1998 the Council of Europe published a resolution entitled "Situation of the French-speaking population living in the Brussels periphery" http://assembly.coe.int/documents/workingdocs/doc98/edoc8182.htm which focussed on a linguistic conflict affecting six communes in Flanders, and made recommendations to both the Flemish government and the French-speaking inhabitants.
The International Labour Organisation, a UN agency, reported ( http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/migrant/papers/imp23/ch10.htm) the results of an experiment, involving two testers applying for jobs in Belgium, where the Moroccan job applicant was discriminated against in favour of the Belgian.
www.33beat.com /Brussels.html   (1210 words)

  
 Christoff Keggenhoff organ recital   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Since 992 Christoph Keggenhoff has been a board member of the German Federation of Organ Consultants (VOD); since 200 he is also been chairman of the “Europäische Orgelakademie am Oberrhein".
His activities as a concert organist have led him to concertize and participate in festivals in Germany Belgium, England, France, Croatia, Austria, Poland, Ukraine and the United States.
In addition to his work as a concert organist, he also frequently plays concerts with soloists, choirs, instrumentalists and orchestras.
www.nd.edu /~isla/ISLA/webpages/thearts/music/keggenhoff.htm   (223 words)

  
 Catholic Culture : Document Library : Canonization of Saints
The relics of martyrs are brought into the sacred building in solemn procession, not in sorrow but in joy, and laid to rest beneath the altar.
The procedure for canonization is, first, the production to the Sacred Congregation of Rites of an authentic document to prove the fact of beatification, either formal or equivalent, and in defect of such document a judicial process to establish the fact and, secondly, processes to prove miracles in detail.
The vast basilica of the Vatican is decorated and illuminated, and the expense is so enormous that often it is arranged that several saints are canonized on the same day, in order that the various postulators may share the cost.
www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=3631   (7076 words)

  
 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
Mary's heart was now linked in his dream with that of Jesus, and the person of Mary linked with the person of Jesus.
In the case of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart it first took the form in a stained glass window in the Issoudun Basilica and later more clearly in a statue in the newly built shrine.
In the case of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart our devotion flows especially from the contemplation of Mary at the foot of the Cross - Mary contemplating her Son Jesus, understanding why his mission should have led him to this, understanding the love for us that drove him in this mission.
www.mikokoro.net /OLSH.html   (2796 words)

  
 The Catholic Voice online edition
The altar of the chair is nearby in the apse of the basilica, with its window of the Holy Spirit shining through a spectacular sculpted sunburst.
Cardinal Bernard Law, retired archbishop of Boston and current archpriest of the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome, was the principal concelebrant, with four other cardinals, of one of the nine Masses for the late Pope John Paul II today (April 11).
Outside the Basilica of St. Lawrence is a statue of Pope Pius XII which commemorates the Pope’s personal assistance to the people of this area during the 1943 Allied bombing of the neighborhood of the railroad station, which used to be nearby.
www.catholicvoiceoakland.org /todaysnewsarchives/PaulsDispatch.htm   (10213 words)

  
 Belgium - Basilica of the Sacred Heart (Brussels)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart (situated in the Suburb of Koekelberg) is labeled "the national Basilica of Belgium".
To the people of Brussels and Belgium it seemed that the Basilica would never be finished.
Moreover, the construction of the church depended entirely on donations made by believers and these donations did not always yield the expected funds.
www.odyssei.com /travel/show-travelcw.php?id=4429   (309 words)

  
 CIN - Legacy of a spiritual master who loved the desert - Eightieth Anniversary of the Death of Charles De-Foucauld
There was one spiritual group in particular— numbering 48 at his death—which de Foucauld had gathered in a sort of confraternity, and for which he wrote a text that he ceaselessly corrected and rewrote during the last 10 years of his life.
From the heart of the Sahara he wrote: "Here there is a need for good people, good Christians of every profession, who would come into close contact with the indigenous people through a thousand daily activities".
He recalled his first meeting with Charles de Foucauld, the night of adoration (21-22 February 1909) spent with him in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at Montmartre in Paris, as the beginning of the first group (48 persons at de Foucauld's death), the stock from which all was started.
www.cin.org /saints/foucauld.html   (3061 words)

  
 History of the Reparatory Association
According to new statutes, the purpose of the Association was the Reign of the Sacred Heart in souls and society.
The Reign of the Sacred Heart magazine was suspended in Dec. 1903 because of the expulsion of the Congregation from France.
The articles were written for the members of the Priests of the Sacred Heart, the members of the Intimate Association from Val-de-bois, founded, as we have seen, by Leo Harmel, and for the associates of the Institute of the Religious Victims of the Heart of Jesus, with whom Fr.
www.scj.org /scj_homp/we-scj/repar_e.html   (11081 words)

  
 List of Belgium-related topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aalst - Aalter - Aartselaar - African rap in Belgium - Albert I of Belgium - Albert II of Belgium - Alken - Alveringem - Anderlecht - Antoine - Antwerp (city) - Antwerp (province) - Anzegem - Ardennes - Ardooie - Arendonk - Argenta - As - Assenede - Atomium - Avelgem
Gachot, Bertrand - Ganshoren - Gaume - Gavere - Geel - Genk - Geography of Belgium - Geraardsbergen - Gesell, Silvio - Ghent - Gingelom - Gistel - Gordel (De) - Governor of Brussels-Capital - Grobbendonk - Grote Markt / Grand-Place
Rail transport in Belgium - Ranst - Ravels - Reinhardt, Django - Retie - Riemst - Rijkevorsel - Rivers of Belgium - Roeselare - Rogge, Jacques - Ronse - RTBF - Ruiselede - Rumst - Rupelmonde
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Belgium-related_topics   (596 words)

  
 Monk Notes 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Another reference from the 1500's to an image of the Sacred Heart is by the daughter of the English martyr, Sir Thomas Percy, who founded an abbey for English Benedictine Nuns at Brussels in 1596.
Ecuador was consecrated to the Sacred Heart by its saintly president, Garcia Moreno in 1873.
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the hill called Montmartre in Paris was the fulfillment of the "National Vow" of France made during the war of 1870.
www.monksofadoration.org /mn/mn4.html   (5793 words)

  
 St. Peter's - The Nave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The measurements of the largest churches in the world are recorded in brass letters on the center of the floor.
On the trabeation which extends the whole length of the basilica is a Latin text in large fl letters on a gold background.
In reality, the vastness of the general architecture and its special elements is not immediately perceived, because all the decorations added to the bare wall structures, and completed by Maderno at the end of the 16th century, were executed gradually with a great unifying sense of proportions.
www.stpetersbasilica.org /Interior/Nave/Nave.htm   (1359 words)

  
 Europe 2004 - Belgium & France - 6/8-11/04
We finished dinner so quickly we had time to sit on the steps in front of the Basilica and soak in the city and the surroundings.
It was built as the result of a 17th century request by a nun, Sister Marguerite-Marle.
She said she was asked by God to have France ‘build a monument to the glory of the Devine Heart’.
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 VirtualTourist.com - Brussels Basilique de Koekelberg - Pictures, Tips and Reviews
The official name is the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, but almost everyone names it the Basilica of Koekelberg.
THE BASILICA OF THE HOLY HEART The Basilica of the Holy Heart at Koekelberg dominates Brussels from a hill at the Westernmost part of town.
The actual name is Basilica of the Sacred Heart, but situated in the neighbourhood "Koekelberg" the people simply started to call it "Basilica of Koekelberg".
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Belgium/Region_de_Bruxelles_Capitale/Brussels-357567/Things_To_Do-Brussels-Basilique_de_Koekelberg-BR-1.html   (848 words)

  
 Crowne Plaza Brussels Hotels - Crowne Plaza Hotel Reservations Brussels, Belgium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As a result of world wars and irregular funding, completion of Belgium's Basilica took more than 75 years to accomplish.
A small charge lets you ride the elevator to the Basilica's dome, where views of the city are unparalleled.
Merry Belgium, another World's Fair holdover, is a restaurant row with cute cafes and welcoming terraces that invite visitors to dine and relax.
www.brusselshotels.crowneplaza.com /portal/jp/jt1/categoryDetails?subCategory=85&category=17&city=514   (559 words)

  
 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Scientific American Supplement, December 12, 1891
The main work on the basilica of the Sacred Heart is now completed and the bell tower surmounts it.
The outline most usually followed gives 15 rims to the large diameter, 7½ to the upper part of the bell, and 32 to the large radius that serves to trace the profiles of the external sides.
The moulding is done as follows: In the pit where the casting is to be done there is constructed a core of bricks and a clay shell, separated from each other by a thickness of earth, called false bell.
www.gutenberg.org /files/15052/15052-h/15052-h.htm   (19227 words)

  
 MSC-APIA
His idea about the Society of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was not built up like some jigsaw puzzle comprising bits and pieces taken from various sources as though he had no idea of the overall picture until all these borrowed pieces were put together.
The universal missionary scope of the MSC was underlined by the motto, May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be loved everywhere, and by the fourth vow, whose special aim was to underline the essential gift of our charism, the readiness for mission everywhere.
This is well expressed in CS 14: "As Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, we must be convinced of the necessity of a deep interior life that is open to the Holy Spirit, so that we may grow in faith and knowledge of the mystery revealed in the Heart of Christ.
www.msc-apia.net   (20671 words)

  
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METALLURGY.--The Great Bell of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre.--The founding of the great bell "La Savoyarde" at the Paccard foundry in France.--Description of the bell, its inscriptions, and decorations.--3 illustrations VII.
The outline most usually followed gives 15 rims to the large diameter, 71/2 to the upper part of the bell, and 32 to the large radius that serves to trace the profiles of the external sides.
But it cannot be compared to the famous bell given by Eudes Rigauit, Archbishop of Rouen, to the cathedral of that city, and which was so big and heavy that it was necessary to give a copious supply of stimulants to those who rang it, in order "to encourage" them.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/5/0/5/15052/15052.txt   (19925 words)

  
 Brussels Events Travel Guide - Belgium - Brussels City Guide
The magnificent and unique Basilica of the Sacred Heart in the Brussels suburb of Koekelberg is the venue for the city's annual flower show.
Visitors can delight in the flower show in addition to marvelling at the Basilica itself, the largest neo-Gothic church in the world, its interior decorated in 1930s style.
A climb to the dome is rewarded with a beautiful panorama across the city and surrounds.
www.wordtravels.com /Cities/Belgium/Brussels/Events   (420 words)

  
 CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART, EDINBURGH - Newsletter Supplements 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
These services like ours here at the Sacred Heart Church, remember and honour those who have made the ultimate sacrifice of laying down their loves for their friends, their country and for peace in a better world.
St. John Eudes (1601-1680) advocated devotion to the Heart of Jesus and the Heart of Mary having composed the Office of the Sacred Heart in 1668; prompting Pope Pius X to acclaim him the "Father of the cults for the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary".
In these visions she became aware of Christ's love burning brightly and unceasingly from his heart and was told by Christ of his concern for the indifference and coldness of the world.
www.rc.net /standed/sacredheart/cat03.html   (21103 words)

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