St. Joseph Minor Seminary

The first buildings were built starting April 1689, the friars were authorised to found the second monastery in the city.

The Chapel of Saint Anthony was completed in 1692 and in 1696 Bishop Philips Erard van der Noot, bishop of Ghent consecrated the church, in baroque style and famous for the major carvings of Jan Boeksent.

It was later sold to Bishop Maurice-Jean de Broglie who converted the old monastery into a Minor seminary dedicated to Saint Joseph.

For the centenary of the school in 1908, Pope Pius X sent his personal pontifical blessing.

[1] Today the seminary has gone, and the building is now part of the Catholic secondary school property of the diocese.