21 May 1641: d. Alessandro Cesare Scaglia, who helped with Charles I's #French match, at #Antwerp#otd & was buried in the #Franciscan Recollect habit. He was agent for the decoration of the Queen's House #Greenwich, but the work was never completed. (National Gallery London)
20 May 1614: Cardinal Bellarmine ordains Toby [Tobie] Matthew, a priest #otd Matthew was a high profile convert: writer & courtier, patron of #nuntastic Carmelites at #Antwerp and son of the Church of #England Archbishop of #York (JMcC/eebo/BM)
20 May 1570: Gilles Coppens de Diest at #Antwerp published 53 maps #otd created by Abraham Ortelius under the title Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Theatre of the World] this work is considered to be the first modern atlas.
14 May 1578: Walter Travers, future [1594] Provost of Trinity College #Dublin is ordained in the Presbyterian manner in #Antwerp#otd by laying on of the hands of 12 ministers
Triumphal gate erected in #Antwerp on the occasion of the canonization of the #Spanish Franciscan Peter of Alcantara #otd 28 Apr 1669 designed by Suzanna Verbruggen.
(Rijksmuseum)
Peter was a huge supporter & encourager of Teresa of Avila.
17 Apr 1657: the #English Dominicans take possession of a recently purchased monastery #otd at Bornhelm near #Antwerp#otd Philip Howard, future cardinal, becomes first prior of the community there on 15 Dec (NPG)
The sculpture represents Silvius Brabo, a legendary character from whose gesture, it is said, the name of Antwerp etymologically derives, from the Dutch hand werpen, which means to throw your hand. In the background you can see the Antwerp town hall protected by a tarp for its rehabilitation.
Here's how to make green #transit even greener. Put the tram tracks on a carpet of grass or sedum. 2 kms of track creates 1.5 football fields' worth of green space, reducing air pollution and urban heat island effect.
9 Mar 1634: Theodoor Van Dyck, brother to the more famous #artist Anthony, and chaplain to Queen Henrietta Maria, leaves her service #otd & returns to #Antwerp (NPG)
14 Feb 1626: b. Elizabeth Mostyn at Greenfield Flintshire #otd Together with her sister Margaret, she would take vows at the #nuntastic#Carmelite convent in #Antwerp on 10 Aug 1644 (BM - portrait of St. Teresa)
"The report showed that improvements in #AirQuality between 2019 and 2022 from lowering motor vehicle pollution – even before the expansion of the #ULEZ throughout the capital since August – rivalled the potential savings from entirely cleaning up #London’s aviation or industrial and commercial heat and power generation."
"#Antwerp was the first city to set up a zone in 2017. This was followed by #Brussels, and then #Ghent. Like #London’s ultra-low emission zone (#ULEZ), and more than 320 schemes across Europe, the Belgian zones are designed to improve air pollution by deterring the most polluting vehicles from driving on city streets (generally the oldest diesels)."
In these cities, #AirPollution has decreased faster than in cities without low emissions zones.