Sainte Catherine church from the square

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Église Ste-Catherine

Brussels


Église Ste-Catherine must be one of the only religious buildings that positively encourages folks to urinate on its walls (there’s a ‘pissoir’ on its northwestern flank). Inside is a black statue of the Virgin and Child that Protestants once hurled into the Senne (1744); the statue was found ‘miraculously’ floating on a chunk of turf.

Transportation

  • metro: Ste-Catherine

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