Collegiate Church of St John the Evangelist, Liège

The church was suppressed in 1797 during the French Revolution, the building being confiscated and sold in 1798.

On 23 March 1879, Pope Leo XIII canonically crowned the statue of Saint Joseph (1757) within this shrine, in honor of the 200th anniversary of the request by King Charles II of Spain to Pope Innocent XI to consecrate Belgium to Saint Joseph.

The coronation feast also coincided with the 203rd anniversary of Diocese of Liege by request of Emperor Leopold I in 1676 and approved by Pope Clement X.

The notarized Pontifical decree was received by Bishop of Liege, Victor Doutreloux.

Originally an octagonal building in Mosan Romanesque style, incorporating elements of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem,[1] the church was completely rebuilt in a late Baroque style in 1754–1784.

An early-16th-century chalice originally made for a canon of St John the Evangelist, Liège
A 13th-century Virgin and Child titled “Sedes Sapientiae” enshrined within.