The Franciscan shrine of Màgdala, on the western shore of Lake Tiberias, welcomed the Franciscan community of the Custody of the Holy Land for the second time in honour of the feast-day of St Mary Magdalene, the first to meet the Risen in front of the empty tomb, thus becoming the first witness of the victory of Jesus over death. The liturgical memory of the “Apostle to the Apostles” falls on 22 July, the day that Pope Francis - with a […]
In the afternoon of Wednesday 17 April, the Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, fra Massimo Fusarelli, and the Vicar General, fra Ignacio Ceja Jiménez, took part in the inauguration of the theatre of the Terra Sancta School in Jerusalem. A space for expression and culture After the “Jerusalem capital of the Resurrection” Sports Centre inaugurated in July 2023, for the students and the Old City, in some way the theatre completes the offer of the school, giving the youngsters […]
Fadi Massabki, originally from Damascus, an entrepreneur in the sector of luxury furnishing, is considered the closest descendant to the Massabki brothers. They were the three Maronite laymen who will be canonized in Rome on 20 October, together with eight Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land. The group is better known as the “Martyrs of Damascus”. Fadi and his family will take part in the offertory procession, during the Mass of canonization of the “Martyrs of Damascus”, […]
On Monday 17 January 2022, the communicators of the Custody of the Holy Land were received at a audience by the Holy Father in the Clementina Room of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican, on the occasion of the centenary of the foundation of the Terrasanta magazine. Made up of 44 people and led by the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, who came for the occasion from Jerusalem, the delegation expressed a variety of national and linguistic […]
