The Brussels massacre was an antisemitic episode in Brussels in 1370 in connection with an alleged host desecration at the Brussels synagogue. In May 1370, a number of Jews, variously given as six or
19th-century depiction of the alleged profanation, in the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula in Brussels.
The reliquary of the Sacrament of Miracle, used to contain three hosts said to have been desecrated by Jews in 1370.
The Amman (judge) reads the death sentence.
Representation of the reliquary of the Blessed Sacrament of Miracle, and of the three hosts, made on the occasion of the 400 years jubilee.
The Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula, usually shortened to the Cathedral of St. Gudula or St. Gudula by locals, is a medieval Catholic cathedral in central Brussels, Belgium. It is dedicated to
Brussels massacre
…households in Brussels and two in Leuven. In 1369, two priests in Brussels were arrested for usury and turned over to the ecclesiastical tribunal of the Church of St. Michael and St. Gudula (now the cathedral) for investigation: it transpired that they had attempted to circumvent usury prohibitions by lending money to a Jew named Mesterman…
St. Michael and St. Gudula's Cathedral
Detail of Pastoral Instruction, c. 1480, showing the Church of St. Gudula's north tower still incomplete
Miniature of Margaret of York praying in front of the Church of St. Gudula, c. 1468
St. Gudula's Church, engraving by Erycius Puteanus, 1646