The solemnity of St Moses, lawmaker and prophet, who guided the people of the alliance, taking them from slavery in Egypt to the freedom of the Promised Land, fell on 4 September. Moses was never to enter the Promised Land, but he saw it from Mount Nebo, the summit of the Pisga, facing Jericho (Deut. 34, 1-12). On this very spot today there stands the shrine in the care of the Custody of the Holy Land, where every year a […]
Following in the centuries-old tradition of working on recovering and restoring the Christian artistic heritage in the Holy Land, the Custody continues to protect its artistic treasures through actions of relocating and enhancing archaeological finds of considerable interest to reconstruct and protect the history of these Holy Places. On Wednesday 19th October, at the first light of dawn, the very delicate transfer of a base of a column from the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre to the archaeological museum at […]
