The Christmas festivities have come to an end with the Solemnity of the Baptism of the Lord, celebrated on Sunday 7 November on the banks of the River Jordan. With the end of the celebrations of the Epiphany yesterday in Bethlehem, the Franciscan community gathered, with other religious and some parish groups, near the site known by the Arabic name of “Qasr al-Yahud”, or “citadel of the Jews”, probably in memory of when the Israelites crossed the river to arrive […]
Some ancient columns and two capitals from the Holy Sepulcher, decommissioned in the major restoration of the 1970s-1980s, return to the Old City of Jerusalem after resting for more than 50 years inside the Franciscan Gethsemane complex. The artifacts will be placed in a special room of the Terra Sancta Museum, dedicated to the Holy Sepulcher. The museum is located within the Franciscan complex of the Flagellation. The project is managed by the association "pro Terra Sancta." SARA CIBIN Project […]
The Franciscan community of Jerusalem met on Monday 13 May at the Auditorium of the Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception at St Saviour’s Convent in Jerusalem to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (the live broadcast of the event, curated by the CMC, can be found here) through the accounts and the words of academics and illustrious ex-students. “There could not have been a happier date on which to celebrate this anniversary than […]
