Sint-Carolus Borromeuskerk
Baroque Jesuit church with a marble Lady Chapel and a high altar whose giant paintings rotate.
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This guide to the Sint-Carolus Borromeuskerk in Antwerp starts with an object most visitors never notice, hidden behind the high altar, and the Jesuits who built the church in the early sixteen hundreds. It follows their bargain with Peter Paul Rubens, the ceiling his workshop filled, and a summer storm in seventeen eighteen. Best heard from the middle of the nave, facing the altar.
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