A late-Gothic Dominican church begun in 1517 and finished in the early seventeenth century, with one of the most theatrically Baroque interiors in the Low Countries. The church holds three major paintings by Rubens — The Scourging of Christ, The Adoration of the Shepherds, and The Dispute over the Holy Sacrament — alongside works by van Dyck and Jordaens. The carved wooden confessionals are particularly fine.
The most surprising feature is the Calvary Garden in the adjoining courtyard — a rocky Baroque hillside with sixty-three life-size figures of saints, prophets, and angels arranged around the scenes of the Passion. Created in the 1690s as a substitute pilgrimage for Antwerp Catholics who could not travel to the Holy Land. The church is generally open from May through September, mostly in afternoons. Free.