Brotherhoods

The Brotherhood of Vineyard Abbey Villers Since 1990, the Brotherhood of Vineyard Abbey Villers (with 160 members) rehabilitates small vine garden of the abbot who had been left fallow, except for the period following the sacking of the abbey after that it was sold as national property in 1796, at least the last fifty years. […]

The brotherhood of monks Hostieux of Villers-la-Ville The Brotherhood was officially born December 7, 1995 after being recognized by the Council of Noble Brabant and Brussels (consisting of 14 fraternities of the same area), and it unanimously. Develop and build high gastronomic specialty ancestral “Abbey beer” or other Villersoises specialties. Preserve, maintain or possibly revive […]

Royal Brotherhood of Saint Sebastian Oath As in any manor worthy of the name, Marbais had in the Middle Ages, a remarkable body of archers. The adoption of firearms, in the sixteenth century, this company took its military importance; it was transformed into a corporation soon accreditation shooting and, as such gave great joy which […]

Royal Brotherhood of the Knights of the Holy Cross Marbais. Originally Gerard Sire Marbais brought to Jerusalem several beautiful pieces of the Holy Cross and introduced a procession that lasts until today. Each year on the first Sunday of May, the parish Marbais honor the relic of the Holy Cross during the “Tour Holy Cross.” […]