The Solemnity of the Discovery of Christ’s Cross is celebrated every year on 7th May in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, near Golgotha. St Cyril of Jerusalem recalls that, on the seventh day of the month of May in 351, a large luminous cross appeared in the sky which stretched from above Golgotha to the Mount of Olives. The same St Cyril also mentions the episode of the discovery of Jesus’ Cross, around the year 327, by St Helena, […]
The book “Itineraadloca sancta. Travel books in the Franciscan Libraries of Jerusalem, Catalogue of the editions of the 15th-18th centuries,” by Alessandro Tedesco, published in 2017 by Edizioni Terra Santa, was presented in Jerusalem on 14th January. The event, hosted by the Christian Information Center, is part of the international project of “Books, bridges of peace” created in 2011 by the Centro di RicercaEuropeo Libri Editoria e Biblioteche [European Research Centre on Books, Publishing and Libraries] (CRELEB) of the Università […]
"Six days before Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead" (John 12, 1). This are the opening words of Chapter 12 of the Gospel according to John, which introduces the episode of the unction of Jesus’ feet with perfume of pure nard by his friend Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus. The mention at the beginning of “six days before Passover” allows us to remember this episode on the Monday of […]
