This year, March 20th is the day that represents for the Custos of the Holy Land the start of the traditional peregrinations of Lent in the places of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The first Shrine visited is on the Mount of Olives: the Dominus Flevit – which literally means “the Lord wept”. According to tradition, it was here that Jesus wept looking at the skyline of the Holy City and tells the disciples of the end of […]
Entering the world of Status Quo, the rigid system of unwritten rules that since 1852 regulates property, space and time for the Christian communities in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, also means coming across the many objects that are part of the church. Some cannot be moved an inch, others ... move. This is the case with this particular aluminium staircase, which is placed behind the anointing stone the day after Ash Wednesday and it is taken […]
