On Saturday 15 July, in front of the Edicule of the empty tomb, the whole community of the Custody of the Holy Land of Jerusalem gathered together for the solemnity of the Dedication of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, the centre and the heart of the journey of every pilgrim to the Holy Land, in its 874th year since its consecration. It was 15 July 1149 when the Crusaders, after decades of work and structural renovation, officially consecrated the […]
Some pieces of the collection destined for the new historical section of the Terra Sancta Museum have returned to St Saviour's Convent in Jerusalem. They have returned from Italy after a long restoration period thanks to the support of the Rome Foundation and the patronage of the Italian Consulate in Jerusalem. Br STÉPHANE MILOVITCH, ofm Director of the Cultural Heritage Office of the Custody of the Holy Land "This work is the oldest on this table. It is a painting of […]
“Educating is the road to the future and peace”: fra Ibrahim Faltas, director of the Terra Sancta Schools, is increasingly convinced of this. At the school of coexistence We are talking about twenty schools and some 12,000 pupils (in addition to about a thousand teachers and other staff), in Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Jordan and Cyprus. “A particularity of the schools of the Custody of the Holy Land is that they foster a mixed environment: Christians and Muslims study in […]
