A warm embrace of the faithful from all over Galilee welcomed the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, on 29 September at the Franciscan Convent in Mujeidel, near Nazareth, on the feast-day of the Archangels. A Franciscan shrine dedicated to the archangel Gabriel built in 1903 stands here. Under the attentive guidance of the Superior of the convent, Fr. Fadi Shallufi, this shrine has regained in recent years the importance and the participation it had lost following the […]
On the afternoon of Wednesday January 16, 2019, the Custody of the Holy Land opened its doors to the students and professors of the Winter School of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies organized by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The lectures were by Profs. Edoardo Barbieri and Alessandro Tedesco, Ph.D. For the occasion, the books chosen for the exhibit, “The Bible on the move: traditions and translations of the Holy Scriptures,” which was introduced last November at the General […]
It was 5.00 p.m. on Monday 9 October: for the second time in the day, the sirens went off in Jerusalem, while the daily procession of the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land started in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. “We ask the Lord for the gift of peace: for the whole world, but in particular for this martyred land, the Holy Land, for the people who live here, so that they may live together” said […]
