"Feed my sheep, feed my lambs." In Tabga, a small town on the Sea of Galilee not far from Capernaum, Jesus, the good shepherd, entrusts his Church to Peter. And here, in the place of the apparition of the Risen Christ and the conferral of the Petrine primacy, on the shore of the lake that has witnessed many acts of the Lord, the Custos of the Holy Land, Br Francesco Patton, presided over the Eucharist in memory of the feast […]
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 […]
