This year again, the Transfiguration of Jesus was celebrated on Thursday 6th August at the shrine which commemorates this event, on the summit of Mount Tabor. The major celebration, which attracted local Christians and pilgrims from the previous evening to camp on the Mount, has undergone the limitations due to coronavirus, which has forced the friars of the Custody to keep the celebration restricted only to the participation of the friars of the community that lives on Mount Tabor and […]
It is a time of changes in the oldest school in Cyprus, the Terra Sancta School in Nicosia: some parts have been renovated and other old rooms have been readapted to obtain new classrooms for the pupils. The new spaces were blessed by the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, during a short liturgy on the morning of Wednesday 8 December. Assembled in the courtyard, the pupils started with the traditional parade and the school anthem and then […]