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When you enter the church, you can admire on your right an Ecce homo (work of Gisler), which means: Behold the man (these were the words spoken by Pontius Pilate when he presented Jesus to the Jews after the flogging).

The pulpit of truth, work of the sculptor François Vermeulen of Louvain, built in 1862. You can contemplate three statues which represent on the right Saint Augustine, on the left Saint Jerome and in the middle the Blessed Virgin.

In the Saint-Joseph chapel, you will find on your right a work by the painter Ernest Wante (1872-1960), entitled: “The entry of Saint Alphonse into Ciorani”. Ciorani was one of the first foundations of the Redemptorist congregation and is located in what was then called…

Above the altar we find a reproduction of a painting of Pope Saint Pius X, the original of which is in the Latin American Seminary in Rome. Giuseppe Sarto was born on June 2, 1835 in Riese, a small village in Veneto (Italy), in an…

Behind the altar, you can see a huge painting over 13m high, the work of painter Antoine Wiertz. Nicknamed the “brush philosopher”, Antoine Wiertz was a Belgian painter and sculptor born in Dinant in 1806 and died in 1865 in his studio located in Ixelles,…

On either side of the chancel, the Renaissance-style choir stalls are the work of sculptor Charles Geerts; they are surmounted by arcades in which you can see Christ, Saint Paul and the twelve Apostles. 1. Christ, 2. St. Peter, 3. Saint Paul, 4. Saint Andrew,…

We find on the left the Notre-Dame du Bon Conseil chapel, adorned with a painting painted in 1856 by Eugène Van Maldegem, born in Dentergem in 1813 and died in Ixelles in 1867. Notre-Dame du Bon Conseil is surrounded by Saint Joseph , Saint Alphonse…

Statue of the Virgin overlooking the altar of the Notre-Dame du Bon Conseil chapel.

To the left of the side altar of Notre-Dame du Bon Conseil, “The resurrection of the son of the widow of Naïm” (1857), work of the painter François-Joseph Navez. But before talking about this painting, a few words about the artist. François-Joseph Navez was born…

In Byzantine style, painted on wood and with a gold background, the image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is about 50 centimeters high. The Virgin appears there with her divine child; on their foreheads shines a halo of gold. Two angels present the instruments…

The Way of the Cross dates from 1913 and is the work of Ernest Wante, born in Ghent in 1875 and died in Berchem in 1960. Painter of religious subjects, landscapes, portraits and murals, he was trained in drawing school of Saint-Nicolas, then at the…

On either side of the central door we find a set of statues. On one side, a Calvary with the Blessed Virgin and Saint John at the foot of the Cross. It is a memory of the 1861 mission. It therefore reminds us of the…