On Wednesday 6th November, despite the crowd at the Basilica of the Resurrection, the non-stop flow of pilgrims was blocked for a few moments. The Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land, who had arrived from the Jaffa Gate, were accompanying the new Consul General of France, René Trocaz, for his entrance into the Holy Sepulchre. When the Custody had already set its roots in the Holy Land, the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, with the Treaty of the Capitulations […]
