On 19 March, the solemnity of St Joseph, the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land celebrated the feast-day of the patron saint of the Universal Church in Nazareth, in the place where according to tradition the Holy Family lived after they returned from Egypt. The Angelus in the Crypt of St Joseph At noon, the Franciscan friars, accompanied by some faithful, celebrated St Joseph in the church dedicated to him, next to the Basilica of the Annunciation. The prayer […]
Light and darkness, mountain and valley, Tabor and Gethsemane. The day of study in Jerusalem and (online), promoted by the “Scientific Committee for the celebration of the jubilees of the Basilicas of Tabor and of Gethsemane”, swayed between these two contrasts. The two basilicas were consecrated in the month of June one hundred years ago. At the time, Pope Pius XI sent his delegate, Cardinal Oreste Giorgi. Today, with the war underway, the Committee had to put aside the idea of […]
Maria de Lurdes Nunes, who was affectionately called Lurdinha by her friends, a journalist at the Christian Media Center and a missionary of Canção Nova, passed away on Friday 6 December, at the age of 64, after years of a battle against a tumour. She had returned to Brazil only a few weeks ago and a few days ago she was taken to the hospital of Barra Mansa (Rio de Janeiro). She died at 12 noon, reciting the prayer of […]
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 […]
