On Friday 1 July, the celebration of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus opened with the songVexilla Regis in the Basilica of the Agony in Jerusalem. On exactly the same site where the Lord sweated blood on the night he was betrayed, the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, ofm, guided the friars in a procession from the garden of Gethsemane to the Basilica, where he presided the solemn mass. The song dedicated to the cross, the royal banner […]
The Milk Grotto in Bethlehem, together with the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth and the Shrine of the Visitation in Ain Karem, is one of the most popular shrines to the Virgin Mary in the whole of the Holy Land. There is not a single pilgrim who, after visiting and praying in the grotto of the Nativity, fails to take the path that leaves from the main square in Bethlehem and continues along the southern side of the Basilica […]
