In the evening of the Good Friday, still in the Basilica, there was the “Funeral procession”: it is an actual funeral for Jesus who died on the cross, according to an ancient custom which dates back to the 15th century. The liturgy was presided by the Custos of the Holy Land, fr. Francesco Patton, while the task of the Secretary of the Holy Land, fr. Alberto Joan Pari, is to carry the crucifix to which Jesus is nailed. On Calvary, two deacons remove […]
A series of events were held in Vicenza between 24 and 26 May dedicated to the Holy Land as part of the initiatives of the “Lymph of the Olive Tree: a Focus on the Biblical Lands.” Lecturers and scholars from the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem, which this year commemorates its centenary, also remembered by the exhibition on the Centenary in the hall of the Palazzo delle Opere Sociali in Vicenza. Professor don Gianantonio Urbani, guest professor of Biblical Excursions […]
On 17 September, the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land celebrated the feast of the impression of the Stigmata of St Francis, of which this year is the 800th anniversary. The Custodial Vicar, Fra Ibrahim Faltas, celebrated a Solemn Mass at St Saviour’s church in Jerusalem. For the occasion, an altar in honour of St Francis was set up at the foot of the presbyter. At the centre there is the tile in which the episode of […]
At the end of the initiative supported by the Commissary of the Holy Land of Tuscany and Florence City Council entitled “Florence and Jerusalem”, a meeting was held to take stock of the excavations under way at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre on 29th April at the Marino Marini Museum in Florence. The event aimed to reread the history of the archaeological excavations at the Holy Sepulchre, giving a voice to those in charge of the works today and yesterday, […]
