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 Saturday 7 October, in St Saviour’s church in Jerusalem, fr. Juan David Rodriguez Barahona concluded his path of discernment with the solemn profession, to finally belong to the Order of Friars Minor. It was a particular day, in which to the joy for this important occasion there were added the shock, the fear and the sadness for the events of bloodshed that shook the Holy Land from the very early morning. The celebration was presided over by the Custos of […]
