A series of fourteenth or fifteenth century "Stations of the Cross" fill the arches of the transepts; quite an unusual arrangement of this feature, and one which seems well considered.
St. Barthélemy's is Liège's other great church. It is a basilica of five naves and two Romanesque towers. It dates in reality from the twelfth century, but has been greatly modernized.
St. Barthélemy's might have been a highly interesting example of a Romanesque church had it not been desecrated by late Italian details.
St. Barthélemy's has a twelfth-century art[{303}] treasure in a brazen font, cast in 1112 by Patras, a brass-founder of Dinant on the Meuse. Its bowl depicts five baptismal scenes in high relief, each accompanied by a descriptive legend. Upon the rim of the bowl is the following legend:
"Bissenis bobus pastorum forma notatur,
Quos et apostolice commendat gratia vite,
Officiiq; gradus quo fluminis impetus bujus
Letificat sanctam purgatis civibus urbem."
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DÜSSELDORF, NEUSS, AND MÜNCHEN-GLADBACH
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