The various events that mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem and which bring together thousands of festive faithful for the start of Holy Week took place on Sunday 10 April in a climate of rebirth and hope. The day opened in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre where the solemn mass, presided by the Latin Patriarch, Mons. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, started the celebrations which did not come to an end until the evening, in the courtyard of the Basilica of St Anne, […]
The annual prolusion for the opening of the academic year of the École biblique and of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (SBF), two of the most important Catholic academic institutions in the Holy Land, was held on Friday 15th November, in the Church of St Stephen at the Dominican convent and seat of the École biblique et archéologique française of Jerusalem (EBAF). Each year, in turn, this event is hosted in one of these two venues. The first part of the […]
The Custody, as per tradition in the Holy Land, wanted to honour the Republic of Italy with a eucharistic celebration on the Saturday following 2nd June: this public holiday commemorates the institutional referendum of 1946 in which the Italians were asked to choose between a monarchy and a republic. The Consul-General of Italy Giuseppe Fedele, the head of the Consular Department Alberto Invernizzi, the head of the Visa Department Marianna Delle Vedove, the Consul’s assistant Tony Khoury, and the civil and […]
