The Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land dedicated Easter Monday to the pilgrimage to Emmaus, in the village of El-Qubeibeh, 11 kilometres (about 7 miles) from Jerusalem. In the shrine dedicated to St Simon and St Cleopas, the Custos of the Holy Land, fr. Francesco Patton, celebrated the Solemn Mass. The Gospel of the day recalls the episode of the two disciples who were returning in sadness to their homes in Emmaus and how Jesus accompanied them and […]
We met Fr. Alessandro Coniglio, ofm, recently appointed a Discrete of the Custody, to talk about the last academic year and the new one that will soon be opening at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (SBF), of which he is the Secretary and an Adjunct Professor. Fr. Alessandro, can you talk to us about the academic year that has just come to an end at the SBF? How can you take stock of it? The academic year that has ended was […]
The eleven martyrs of Damascus who will be canonized on 20 October in St Peter’s Square include Fra Nicanor Ascanio Soria: belonging to the Diocese of Madrid. He spent most of his life in Spain. The Lord called him to martyrdom only one year after his arrival in the Holy Land. The desamortización Nicanor was born in 1814 in a village near Madrid, Villarejo de Salvanés. Brought up in a very conservative environment of faith, at 16 he donned the […]
World Youth Day brought together participants from 156 countries in Panama. Among the registered there were young people from the Holy Land. And more than two weeks after the great event, the experience of meeting the Pope and youth from all over the world continues to live within each of them. This group of 10 young people from Bethlehem gathered to share their experience in the Central American country. During the long journey, the compatriots of Jesus, led by Brother […]
