On the morning of Saturday 27 March, a representation of friars of the Custody gathered at the shrine of Bethphage for the commemoration of the Lord’s entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. This was still part of the Lenten peregrinations. The land on which the shrine of Bethphage was built was purchased in 1843 by the Custody of the Holy Land, and restored in its current form in 1954. The traditional procession of Palm Sunday starts from here, reaching St […]
On Monday March 14, in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, the ceremony of the start of the project for the conservation and restoration of the floor was held in the presence of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III, the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, and the Grand Sacristan of the Armenian Patriarchate Arch. Sevan Gharibian, representing the Patriarch Nourhan Manougian. This work, continuing the restoration of the Edicule of Christ’s Tomb done between 2016/2017 by the […]
