According to tradition, after the Christian Orthodox Christmas, the Custos, Fr. Francesco Patton, along with a delegation of Franciscan friars, exchanged greetings with the Orthodox communities. With that, the liturgical Christmas season for the churches of the Holy Land came to a close. Orthodox Christmas traditionally falls on a different date because the Orthodox Church does not follow the Gregorian calendar but rather uses the Julian calendar. It can be helpful to know that it was Pope Gregory XIII in […]
