Cathédral de Liège (Liège Cathedral)
Ask the sacristan to show you the cathedral's priceless treasures. These include a white marble-and-oak pulpit and the 13th-century polychrome Madonna and Child by the high altar. The Trésor (Treasury) in the cloisters (rue Bonne Fortune 6) holds a small but exquisite collection that includes a gold reliquary that was Burgundian Duke Charles the Bold's gift of "penance" after he wiped out the city and every able-bodied man in it in 1468. This masterpiece, the work of Charles's court jeweler, shows a repentant duke kneeling as St. George looks on (there's no word about whether the surviving populace were satisfied with this gesture). Nearby, a bas-relief depicting the Crucifixion is said to contain a piece of the True Cross. Equally impressive is the reliquary of St. Lambert, which dates from the early 1500s and holds the saint's skull.
Ask the sacristan to show you the cathedral's priceless treasures. These include a white marble-and-oak pulpit and the 13th-century polychrome Madonna and Child by the high altar. The Trésor (Treasury) in the cloisters (rue Bonne Fortune 6) holds a small but exquisite collection that includes a gold reliquary that was Burgundian Duke Charles the Bold's gift of "penance" after he wiped out the city and every able-bodied man in it in 1468. This masterpiece, the work of Charles's court jeweler, shows a repentant duke kneeling as St. George looks on (there's no word about whether the surviving populace were satisfied with this gesture). Nearby, a bas-relief depicting the Crucifixion is said to contain a piece of the True Cross. Equally impressive is the reliquary of St. Lambert, which dates from the early 1500s and holds the saint's skull.
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