On Sunday 10th January 2021, after 54 years and 3 days, the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land once again celebrated Mass in the church of St John the Baptist at Qasr Al-Yahud, on the banks of the River Jordan, the Christian site where the Baptism of Jesus is commemorated. The liturgy started with the procession of the Franciscans who, from the Greek Orthodox monastery of St John, arrived at the Franciscans’ land not far from the […]
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 […]
