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Encyclopedia Britannica



HAL

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 829 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
HAL , a town of Brabant, Belgium, about 9 m. S.W. of Brussels, situated on the river Senne and the Charleroi canal. Pop. (1904) 13,541. The place is interesting chiefly on account of its fine church of Notre Dame, formerly dedicated to St Martin. This church, a good example of pure
Gothic
 , was begun in 1341 and finished in 1409. Its principal ornament is the alabaster altar, by J. Mone, completed in 1533. The bronze font
dates
  from 1446. Among the monuments is one in black marble to the dauphin
Joachim
 , son of Louis XI., who died in 1460. In the treasury of the church are many costly objects presented by illustrious personages, among others by the emperor Charles V., King
Henry
  VIII. of England, Charles the Bold of
Burgundy
 , and several popes. The church is chiefly celebrated, however, for its miraculous image of the Virgin. Legend says that during a siege the bullets fired into the town were caught by her in the folds of her dress. Some of these are still shown in a chest that stands in a side chapel. In consequence of this belief a
great
 
pilgrimage
 , attended by many thousands from all parts of Belgium, is paid annually to this church. The hotel de ville
dates
  from 1616 and has been restored with more than
ordinary
  good taste.


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