Two important Lenten peregrinations took place between the afternoon of 22nd March and the next morning, when, as tradition has it, the whole of the Franciscan community goes to visit the most important sanctuaries linked to the Passion of Jesus, celebrating the Eucharist together and meditating on the Scriptures in the very places commemorating the events that took place there. Flagellation, 22nd March The third peregrination was on Wednesday 22nd March to the Church of the Flagellation. After the Dominus […]
It was inaugurated on Monday 4th November and will remain open to the public until Friday 8th November. The exhibition “Five Centuries since Leonardo da Vinci (1519-2019). Science and Technology in the Renaissance books owned by the Library of the Custody of the Holy Land in Jerusalem” celebrates the greatness of Leonardo da Vinci five hundred years after his death. The exhibition, in the hall of the Curia of the Custody in the Convent of St Saviour in Jerusalem, displays […]
In Ein Karem, a small village 8 kilometres from Jerusalem, the presence of the Custody of the Holy Land is divided into 3 shrines where for centuries the memory of one of the key figures of the Advent has been preserved: John the Baptist. At the schrine of the Visitation the evangelical episode of the visit by Mary to her cousin Elizabeth, as told by Luke in his gospel, is remembered. There is also the memory, in the crypt, of the […]
