The day after Easter, as the Gospel says, Jesus appeared to the two disciples on their way to Emmaus. Following in their footsteps, the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land and the faithful pilgrims and parishioners of St. Savior in Jerusalem and other surrounding places contemplated this passage in the place where it is commemorated. In this Sanctuary, called the Basilica of the Manifestation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the appearance of the risen Christ after the resurrection, […]
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 […]
