Generally celebrated on 25th March, this year the solemnity of the Annunciation has been moved to 7th and 8th April. The community of Franciscan friars gathered together with the local community in the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, where the place and the memory of the meeting between the Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary (Luke 1, 26.38) and the Incarnation of the Word are enshrined. Here the Word became flesh The Judaic-Christian accounts, the narrations in the gospels, […]
The words of the pilgrim Egeria, who arrived in the Holy land at the end of the 4th century, echo once again under the sky of Jerusalem on a warm evening in early summer. The cultural event “The voice of Egeria” was held on Thursday 20 June, in St Helen’s courtyard in the Franciscan complex of St Saviour. It was a reading of passages selected from Itinerarium Egeriae (Egeria’s diary) with a musical accompaniment. The initiative The event is based […]
The process for the renewal of the position of Custos of the Holy Land and for the election of the members of the 2025 Custodial Chapter, scheduled to be held from 1 to 12 July, has begun. On Monday 16 September, the first phase of voting opened. Each friar received two ballot papers: a white one for the Election of the Custos and a coloured one for the election of the Chapter. The appointment of the new Custos is expected […]
The commissaries of the Holy Land of some Asian countries are currently visiting Jerusalem on a trip which will then take them to Rome, Naples and Assisi.The visit to Jerusalem is part of a wider itinerary, which involves the commissaries of India, Singapore-Malaysia-Brunei and South Korea to further the knowledge of the reality of the Holy Land and its commissariats. The commissariats of the Holy Land were established in 1421 by Pope Martin V. More recently Pope Paul VI reconfirmed […]
