Collection: Exhumation of St. Hubert

ARTIST: Museum Religious Art Classics

ARTWORK NARRATIVE:

Artist: Rogier van der Weyden – c. 1430

This artwork shows St. Hubert’ss incorrupt body being disinterred from St Peter's Church in Liège in 825 for translation to Angadium Abbey. On the left Walcaud, Bishop of Liège, kneels to cense the tomb, with Louis the Pious standing behind him, holding his crown in his hand. To the right, also kneeling and mitred, is Hadbold, Archbishop of Cologne.

His feast day is November 3.