Every 6 August, the Custos of the Holy Land celebrates the solemn stational liturgy of the Transfiguration of Our Lord on Mount Tabor, with the participation of a large number of local worshippers and pilgrims. As tradition has it, the solemn stational liturgy took place on the site where, according to the Gospels, the Transfiguration of Jesus took place: "on a high mountain […] his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light" (Matthew 17, 2). […]
On Monday 25 November, the construction site at the Terra Sancta Museum in the convent of the Flagellation, along the Via Dolorosa in the old city of Jerusalem, was reopened. The first part of the museum, which houses the archaeological collections of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, was inaugurated in 2018 and during the construction of the museum’s spaces, the need arose to consolidate some parts of the structure of the future museum. Since the opening of the first rooms, the […]
Every year on 10 July, the liturgical calendar of the Custody of the Holy Land commemorates the “Martyrs of Damascus” : eight friars minor and three lay Maronites, killed “in hatred of the faith” on the night between 9 and 10 July 1860. Pius XI beatified them in 1926. The story of the martyrs Violence broke out in Damascus in 1860 in a context of persecution by the Shiite Druze, which from Lebanon had spread to Syria. Thousands of Christians […]
