On Thursday 6th April, in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Mons. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, opened the solemn liturgies of the Paschal Triduum, with the celebration of the Missa in Coena Domini. The ceremony in the morning is only the first of the several which, until nightfall, punctuate Holy Thursday in Jerusalem, where the facts narrated by the Gospels took place two thousand years ago. This celebration which, according to the rules of the […]
From January 9th, 2020, a new catalog published by Edizioni Terra Sancta is available for purchase. The volume, Selected Works, is a compendium of some pieces from the archaeological and art-history collections of the Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land, selected under the supervision of Dr. Sara Cibin, historian of Italian art and project manager of the Terra Sancta Museum. “The idea was born from the desire to make public the best of the collection and to have a way […]
The day following Christmas, the Church remembers the protomartyr Stephen: as per tradition, the Franciscans make the annual peregrination beyond the Lions’ Gate (or “St Stephen’s Gate”), where a Greek Orthodox church guards the site of his martyrdom. The arrest, the trial and the death of St Stephen are narrated in Acts 7: “They threw him out of the city and began to stone him.” The site of the martyrdom According to the accounts of medieval pilgrims, there were stone […]
