After 1400 years, this year the solemn entrance of the Custos of the Holy Land into the Basilica of the Nativity, on the first Sunday of Advent, took on a new meaning, thanks to the return of a fragment of the Relic of the Holy Crib to Bethlehem. As tradition has it, on Saturday morning the faithful of the parish of St Saviour and some representatives from the quasi-parish of Beit Haninawere received in the Divan of the convent of […]
The history of the convent of St Francis of Tripoli Al-Mina in Lebanon has its roots in the genesis of the Franciscan presence in the Holy Land. It would seem that Fr. Elia Da Cortona himself, the first friar asked by St Francis to go to the Holy Land (and St Francis’s first successor), founded the convent. According to Franciscan sources, St Francis himself, after the historic meeting with the Sultan in Damietta in 1219, returned to the then land of […]
