The fourth pilgrimage, which took place during the fifth week of Lent, was focused on contemplating the Lord’s condemnation in the very place that commemorates it: the Sanctuary of the Condemnation, located in the complex of the Monastery of the Flagellation in Jerusalem. The Sanctuary was rebuilt in 1904 by Fr. Wendelin Hinterkeuser on the ruins of a medieval church, which was discovered years earlier and whose name is unknown. The new church was named after the large slab floor […]
In1632, on 21st April to be precise, the then Custody of the Holy Land, Fr. Paolo da Lodi, obtained a house for the Franciscans serving in Cairo from the Consul of Venice, Giovanni Donato. Almost four hundred years later, the Custody of the Holy Land still works in the Egyptian capital through the Muski convent. Egypt has always been the site of important Biblical and historic events: from the history of the people of Israel told in the book of […]
