In 2021, Pope Francis, upholding the proposal of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, ordered by decree establishing the memory of Sts. Mary, Martha and Lazarus in the General Roman Calendar, on 29 July. Previously only the memory of Martha appeared in the Calendar. The reason for this initiative revolves around the important evangelical testimony that all the three siblings of Bethany offered in welcoming, healing and receiving Jesus in friendship. In the Holy Land, the […]
On the eve of Tuesday 10 August, the eve of the feast-day, the Custos of the Holy Land, fr, Francesco Patton, presided over the first vespers and the transit of the Saint with the community of the Poor Clares in St Clare’s Monastery in Jerusalem. It was 11 August 1253 when Clare died in the monastery of St Damian, where she had spent practically 41 years of her life. Attracted by the example of St Francis, on the night of […]
