On the morning of Good Friday, the Church of Jerusalem goes up to Mount Calvary to celebrate the “Passion of the Lord” in the place where he was crucified and died. At 7 in the morning, after the entry of the Patriarch, Card. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and of the faithful, the doors of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre remained closed for three hours. On this day, the priests wore the red vestments that recall the blood spilt by Jesus. The […]
“In this Holy Land afflicted by hatred and division, we have to build bridges, propose new initiatives and open up horizons.” These were the words that the Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, pronounced at the inauguration of the exhibition “The beauty of the sacred: the Altar of the Medicis and the gifts of Kings” on 12 September at the “ Marino Marini” Museum in Florence. The exhibition, which starts from the Rucellai Chapel, is open from 13 […]
On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 30, at the monastery of the Poor Clares in Jerusalem, the diocesan phase of the beatification cause of the Servant of God Sister Maria of the Trinity (Louisa Jaques) was officially opened. For the occasion, the Franciscan community of Jerusalem, together with the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, gathered in prayer at the Poor Clares’ convent. Her life Louisa-Elisa Jaques was born in 1901 in South Africa. She was a woman […]
The Custos of the Holy Land, fr. Francesco Patton, visited Colombia from 1st to 4th June, on the 400th anniversary of the foundation of the Commissariat of the Holy Land in Colombia. A seminar was held at St Bonaventure’s University in Bogota on Thursday 1st June with the participation of the Custos and of the Commissary of the Holy Land in Colombia, fr. José Manuel Ortega. The event, for friars and the Franciscan family, was the opportunity to show the […]
