Today the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity comes to an end. In the Holy Land, in Jerusalem, it took place from January 24 to February 1, each day touching a different place of worship of the various Christian confessions, from the Holy Sepulchre to the Cenacle, up to the Anglican, Lutheran, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian and Greek Catholic churches. The Custody of the Holy Land hosted one of the central moments at the church of St. Saviour, where the Custos, […]
On the morning of 12 February, the altar from the Latin chapel of Calvary returned to the Holy Sepulchre. Last April it had been removed and, together with other works belonging to the Terra Sancta Museum of Jerusalem, it had gone to Florence to be restored and exhibited at the “Marino Marini” Museum . The altar, donated in 1578 by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando de’ Medici, to the Custody of the Holy Land, has been restored to its […]
After 14 years of waiting and isolation, the presence of the Custos of the Holy Land has once again made itself felt among the alleys and olive groves of Knayeh, in the province of Idlib. The last official visit dated back to 2011, before the Syrian conflict raised a wall of silence around this area, making the villages of Knayeh and Yacoubiyeh almost inaccessible. February 9, 2026 thus marks a date of rebirth, with the arrival of the Custos to […]
From 16 to 23 September, the Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, took part in the celebrations for the 125th anniversary of the Franciscan Monastery in Washington, the seat of a community of the Custody as well as of the Commissariat of the Holy Land. The path of peace During a lecture with benefactors, the Custos illustrated the situation that the friars and Christians are living in in the Holy Land, their needs, their fears and their hopes. He […]
