{"id":5743,"date":"2025-10-20T14:25:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathedralisbruxellensis.be\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=5743"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:12:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:12:33","slug":"conference-du-doyen-benoit-lobet-jan-van-ruysbroeck-doyen-de-sainte-gudule-et-auteur-mystique-du-xiveme-siecle","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/cathedralisbruxellensis.be\/en\/events\/conference-du-doyen-benoit-lobet-jan-van-ruysbroeck-doyen-de-sainte-gudule-et-auteur-mystique-du-xiveme-siecle\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/09\/2026 &#8211; 15:00 &#8211; Lecture by Dean Beno\u00eet Lobet &#8211; Jan van Ruysbroeck, Dean of St. Gudula and 14th-century mystical author"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Saturday, 12 September 2026 (in French)<\/h3>\n<h3>Speaker: Dean Beno\u00eet Lobet (Dean of the Cathedral of Saints Michael and Gudula and theologian). <\/h3>\n<h3>Title: Jan van Ruysbroeck, Dean of St Gudula and 14th-century mystical author<\/h3>\n<p>Jan van Ruysbroeck was a Brabant cleric born in 1293 who, thanks to the number and quality of his writings, occupies an important place in the Western spiritual movement known as \u201cRheno-Flemish mysticism\u201d. He was Dean of St Gudula&#8217;s Collegiate Church until 1343, before founding the Groenendael Priory in the Sonian Forest. He died in 1381 and was beatified by Pope Pius X in 1908. His feast day is celebrated locally on 2 December. The lecture will discuss his life, his personality and the relevance of his spiritual work today.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Free admission<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, 12 September 2026 (in French) Speaker: Dean Beno\u00eet Lobet (Dean of the Cathedral of Saints Michael and Gudula and theologian). Title: Jan van Ruysbroeck, Dean of St Gudula and 14th-century mystical author Jan van Ruysbroeck was a Brabant cleric born in 1293 who, thanks to the number and quality of his writings, occupies an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"gudula-26-categories":[],"mec_category":[120,70],"class_list":["post-5743","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-conferences-en","mec_category-gudula-26-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathedralisbruxellensis.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/5743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathedralisbruxellensis.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathedralisbruxellensis.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathedralisbruxellensis.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathedralisbruxellensis.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cathedralisbruxellensis.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/5743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"https:\/\/cathedralisbruxellensis.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/5743\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathedralisbruxellensis.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathedralisbruxellensis.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathedralisbruxellensis.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"gudula-26-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathedralisbruxellensis.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gudula-26-categories?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathedralisbruxellensis.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}