Saint-Martin

In the church is a copy of a painting by Van Dijck depicting Saint Martin sharing his coat with a poor man.

The high altar is in the form of a sarcophagus. He wears a beautiful tabernacle-drum. The altar itself represents the Ascension of Christ.

The copy of the painting by Pieter Paul Rubens represents the birth of Jesus and hangs above the altar of Mary.

The church has a beautiful pulpit. The cockpit bowl has the shape of a globe and shows the symbols of the evangelists Matthew and John with banderole. On the back are trophies from the Old and New Testaments (tables of the law, host bearing chalice, cross) in the clouds, flanked by two angels with trumpets. The staircase is decorated with angel heads in the clouds and at the bottom with the symbols of the evangelists Mark and Luke. The door represents the Eye of God while on the soundboard you find a polychromed dove representing the Holy Spirit.

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As in so many churches, the doors of the original communion bench were transformed into an altar. You can recognize a host carrying chalice in a wreath of clouds surrounded by angel heads, haired by bunches of grapes and acanthus leaves. The parts of the communion bench that are still in their original place contain beautiful sculpted medallions depicting the lamp of God and a pelican puncturing his own breast to feed his young with blood.

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The walls of the choir seem to consist of stone marble slabs but when you look closer it turns out to be qualitative paintings, a result of the craftsmanship of the Bishop family, a family of painters from the village.