In the transept, we also find two altars of devotion: on the left the altar of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, and on the opposite side, that of the Sacred Heart, whose statue is the work of the sculptor J.-Fr . Deckers (1883), as is the Holy Family on the right as you enter through the main door.
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…
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,…
Le maître-autel de marbre blanc sculpté est l’œuvre d’Édouard Marchant (1848). Il est surmonté de deux personnages de l’Ancien Testament, qui représentent les sacrifices de l’Ancienne Loi : à droite Melchisédech, et à gauche Aaron.