On the Sunday after Christmas, the solemnity of the Holy Family is celebrated in Nazareth. It was in this city in Galilee that St Joseph established the home of his family after returning from Egypt. In the shadow of the Basilica of the Annunciation, built to remember the pace where Mary received the angel’s announcement, there stands the smaller St Joseph's church, on top of what tradition indicates as the house where Jesus grew up with Joseph and Mary “and was […]
A researcher, historian and specialist in the Middle Ages, Spaniard David Catalunya began his study of this unique organ, probably the oldest in the world, as well as of the carillon of bells. The doctor in musicology came to Jerusalem to deepen his research on this exceptional 12th century instrument discovered by archaeologists in Bethlehem, in the Basilica of the Nativity, at the beginning of the 20th century, and preserved in Jerusalem by the Franciscans. This unique organ is a […]
The Franciscan community of Jerusalem met on Monday 13 May at the Auditorium of the Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception at St Saviour’s Convent in Jerusalem to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (the live broadcast of the event, curated by the CMC, can be found here) through the accounts and the words of academics and illustrious ex-students. “There could not have been a happier date on which to celebrate this anniversary than […]
