The second peregrination of Lent took place on Wednesday, 10 March, at the Basilica of Gethsemane, known as the “Basilica of the Agony” or the “Basilica of all the Nations”. It is here, according to tradition, that the agony and the prayer of Our Lord in preparation for his passion is commemorated. The present-day Basilica, the building of which started in 1919, was consecrated in 1924 and stands on an axis placed at the meeting point between the perimeter of […]
In front of the Latin church of Nicosia, a massive barrier, topped with barbed wire, bars the road: it is only one of the places where the division of Nicosia, the last divided European capital, can be seen. The Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land, who have been present on the island for eight centuries, work in the Latin parish with a tireless commitment to the pastoral care of Christians. Almost fifty years after the Turkish occupation of […]
