Guido Gezellemuseum
Sixteenth-century birth house of a poet-priest, with his desk, manuscripts and a garden he wrote about.
This guide to the Guido Gezellemuseum in Bruges follows the poet-priest back to the house on Rolweg where he was born in eighteen thirty, then out to a Catholic seminary in Roeselare, where in the eighteen fifties he ran a secret confraternity among his pupils and grew close to a favorite student, Eugeen van Oye. It centers on a rose the teenager handed him one evening in eighteen fifty-eight, and the tender poem it became. You'll hear how church superiors reacted to a priest writing that way about a boy, and what it cost him. His writing desk and rosary still sit inside the house, beside the shaded garden he wrote about.
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