European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tiled rooftops and Gables in old a City steeped in tips in route one of the most important events in Bruges is the procession of the holy held each ascension this year it takes place next every woman and child in of Bruges or so it seems takes Wear ing biblical costumes and marching behind the Golden re a Juary containing the blood of taken from the Basilica and paraded through the City from 3 to Bruges claims to be the Only City in Belgium to offer hotel reservations by mail with or without a stated hotel apply at least two weeks before expected arrival to the City tourist Dienst voor toe Markt a Boot write ahead to toe same address for a free City hotel Price list and restaurant roster which includes application form for hotel As Well As general brochures of the cites specify you want material in for folders describing the whole Gamut of Vaca Tion possibilities and cultural events in the province of West write to West Vlamin Straat b8000 specify you want material in this years festival of Flanders International music festival takes place july 28 to August 12 in the local language As nationalism moves Belgium flemish majority to insist on its linguistic identity is once the language of the upper classes and for a Yuxian is still if most people who Deal with tourists speak and understand and almost everyone who can prefers it to 9 9 the Flemings Call their City the French the italians and portuguese Call it Bruges phonetically it comes out something like the the germans and the hungarians prefer the teutonic and the brother Hood of esperanto its has settled for 9 9 it Bruges is 60 Miles from 125 Miles from 263 Miles rom la by rages a belgian City of roman tic Beauty nestled in a pict rebook setting of quaint Bridges and cobblestones a City overflowing with cultural treasures of the medieval but Kalso a City of the of l modern its the Hub of West a vacation land of Seaside festivals and Page Hearty hospitality and French accented As the Robed priest moved solemnly toward the a women suddenly broke into somewhere in the Back of the Small Chapel of Saint Basil another women began wailing amid the heightened it was As if the narrow cylindrical capsule the priest held in front of him on a Small Cushion was the blood of someone who had died a violent death just this week not Over years of confided a local resident the scientists Tell us that its not really the blood of our the Church agrees that that there Are Good reasons to question the but the important thing is that the people Here still believe that the vial Given in the 12th Century to the first count of in Jeru Salem during the second contains drops of Jesus taken from the massive romanesque Stone Arches la the lower Chapel of Bruges Basilica of the holy blood testify of seven centuries of existence in this old flemish town of canals and great after a moment of priest and communicants file out of the up a flight of Stone and into the upper Church the Basilica built in flamboyant 15lh Century gothic it has been renovated Many the painted pillars and Walls seemed Garish after the simplicity of the crypt just beneath r and daily from May 3 to 17 from to noon and from 3 to 4 they take that Laking u out of that repository and of Fering it to Public veneration since the second crusade they say the blood used to Liquify every Friday but that Hast been witnessed since the 14th inthe the Cushion with its relic was placed on one by people walked up Earl Spring visit walking along winding tones flanked with stepped Gable Housa canals flowing under weeping Willows notion the Bruges is a Brig i to a it str d seat of Poge the stars and stripes is Sass where 50 paid v ble nations were Koran with into remarkable Wasj Chur courage and on left in the my Harbor became i ing into it Bruges f from general 4 and slept Forf onre it died so sued what was left of 1 rope an b later i considered i because the purity finally i the Region at there were smart Tail Tyni the old City development i Zeebrugge and a 1 an official today you Csato want to repair ii but the City cams right we kept e we i v and politics Interi Fiul than any other crypt a Wonnum Jei when you Hall Square of Hall Suu serves in flight a gothic a Ding til and official r Only a few i the More famous Mon Mem Mere Banu Market w office is in City Chart most famous carib i weight v metric g the Belfry Lake Plaj evenings at 9 from june a Rama of the the Belfry More old Buiu Iasi impression erupt not really 11 tourist Toj people and work he notes throughout the the tact school for Young on the City