“Six days before Passover, Jesus came to Bethany” (John 12,1). The Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land made their traditional pilgrimage to Bethany on Holy Monday, six days before Easter. The perfumed oils and Good Friday The Custos of the Holy Land, fra Francesco Patton, presided over the Solemn Mass which included the blessing of the perfumed oils which will be used on Good Friday, during the traditional funeral procession in the parishes of Jerusalem and to […]
On Monday 7th November, the exhibition “Witness of the resurrection” organized by the CRELEB (Centro di Ricerca Europeo Libro Editoria Biblioteca) of the Università Cattolica and by Pro Terra Sancta was inaugurated as part of the “Libri Ponti di Pace” [Books as Bridges of Peace] project, conceived by Edoardo Barbieri, Full Professor of History of the Book and of Bibliology at the Università Cattolica in Milan. The aim of the event is to offer the general public a journey in […]
The Blessed Martyrs of Damascus will be canonized on 20 October 2024: Manuel Ruiz López and his seven companions, of the order of the Friars Minor, and Francesco, Mooti and Raffaele Massabki, lay Maronite faithful, as established by the Ordinary Public Consistory, convened this morning in Rome, for the Canonization of some Blessed, and presided over by Pope Francis. “I am a Christian and I will die as a Christian” The martyrdom took place during the persecutions against the Christians […]
Br. Sergio Galdi D'Aragona ofm, Secretary for the 2021 General Chapter During the General Definitory meeting last March 20, 2019, Br. Sergio Galdi D’Aragona, OFM of the Custody of the Holy Land and the General Commissary of the Holy Land in Italy was elected as Secretary for the 2021 General Chapter. Born in Salerno on 30 October 1965. He has a PhD on Political Science, a Political-International course, and had his Masters in European Citizenship and Public Administration at […]
