Open Churches Days at
Saint Genevieve

Sint-Genovevaplein 21
3800 Zepperen (Sint-Truiden)

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Church work

Guided tour

7 June 2026 : 12.00 - 16.00

Guided tour of St. Genoveva Church with a focus on architectural history, artefacts and popular devotion.

Price

Free

Contact

Willem Driesen
+32 498 93 91 00
willem.driesen@telenet.be

Other events at Saint Genevieve

Free visit
5 June 2026 : 09.00 - 16.00
6 June 2026 : 09.00 - 16.00
7 June 2026 : 09.00 - 16.00

The church is open to visitors.

Activities for children

What is that: a church?

6 June 2026 : 10.00 - 12.00

Guided tour of St. Genoveva Church for children, with craft activity.

More about this church

Description

Zepperen is first mentioned around 650 as ‘Septimburias’, a place where Saint Genevieve of Paris was venerated. The Chapter of St Servatius in Maastricht had a strikingly beautiful church built in this westernmost ‘bank’. All that remains from the 12th century is the late Romanesque west tower with a 15th-century late Gothic nave. Extensive Neo-Gothic restoration took place around 1900.
The murals from 1509 cover the entire southern transept and depict, in addition to a large Last Judgement, a colossal Saint Christopher and a medieval comic strip depicting the life of Saint Genevieve in eleven scenes.

Late Gothic altarpiece panels and a Pietà from the same period are masterpieces.