Every Saturday, at 8.30 p.m., the night in Nazareth is lit up by hundreds of candles, when from the square in front of the upper Basilica a crowd of pilgrims and faithful set off, reciting the mysteries of the rosary, towards the grotto of the Annunciation. It is the procession “aux flambeaux” (live here) which embodies one of the culminating moments in the life of the Shrine, which holds the memory of that dialogue between the Archangel Gabriel and Mary, which […]
A ritual bath of 2000 years ago and the remains of a church from the Byzantine period (about 1500 years ago); these are some of the most important archaeological finds from the excavations carried out in the Kidron Valley, at the foot of the church of the Gethsemane in Jerusalem. During the construction of a tunnel to link the Basilica of the Agony with the valley below, owned by the Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land, various finds […]
In the respect of the Status Quo, the traditional visit to the friars and the Custos of the Holy Land was made by some of the Orthodox Christian Churches present in Jerusalem on Tuesday, 2nd April for the Easter greetings, which the Catholics celebrated on Sunday 31st March. The brothers of the Orthodox Christian Churches (unlike the Catholics who use the Gregorian calendar) follow the Julian calendar and will celebrate Easter on 5th May: it will then be the Franciscans […]
