“The doors of heaven open to Stephen, the first to be crowned with the glory of the martyrs.” With this antiphon, sung during the recital of the second vespers on 26th December, the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land recalled the protomartyr Stephen in the place where tradition suggests his stoning occurred. The Franciscans go on a peregrination to this site on the day after Christmas, which also always sees great participation by faithful and pilgrims. The Acts […]
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 […]
Tuesday 17 October was the day we asked God for peace in the Holy Land and for all the people who live there. Proposed by the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land, a “Day of prayer and fasting for peace” was celebrated in the Holy Land. The whole of the Catholic Church followed this initiative, invited by the Pope to spiritually join their brothers in the Holy Land. In prayer with the Franciscans Various moments of prayer, which […]
