Today, we all visited Bruges. While we were there, we saw the chocolate museum, sampled some chocolate, visited churches, and toured the Groeninge Museum.

While in the Groeninge Museum, we saw a painting about Saint Nicholas. The painting depicts a portrait of Saint Nicholas in the center. In the other panels, tales of some of the miracles are shown.

The miracles are about various good deeds. While there was a famine, Saint Nicholas convinced sailors carrying grain to the Emperor to stop to give away some extra. To the sailors’ surprise, they had enough grain to last the town for 2 years and still had enough that reached the Emperor’s weight limit. Saint Nicholas also gave a poor man a dowry so he can marry off his three daughters. He also resurrected 3 boys whose heads were chopped off. To give perspective and visual accuracy to the painting, a landscape is painted in the background using light blue and green colors.