Open Churches Days at
Sint-Amandus

Around 1350 years ago, Amandus died. As a missionary bishop, he toured the Scheldt valley and realised a first wave of Christianisation in our region. Artworks in St Amandus' church tell his life and legends. Do you know Amandus' contemporaries: the popes, bishops and monks, kings, court masters, pilgrims and saints for whom there was a great devotion at the time? All influenced the Christianisation that Amandus realised in the Scheldt region. They are glowing names such as Pope Gregory the Great who wanted to achieve religious unity even outside the papal states, the Merovingian king Dagobert who shaped today's France, the Irish monk Columbanus who, by founding a school of learning in Luxeuil, made ‘pilgrimage’ his rule of life. The story of Amandus is also a joyful message where the legends are the parables of the Middle Ages.

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