This year again, on the morning of Good Friday, the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land went down the streets of Jerusalem following in the footsteps of the Lord, in the traditional Via Crucis along the Via Dolorosa. The moment of prayer was led by the Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton. The procession started from the school opposite the Shrine of the Flagellation and followed the stations of the Passion of Jesus Christ from […]
In view of the imminent canonization of the Martyrs of Damascus on 20 October, the original large canvases which were used at St Peter’s on their beatification – almost a century ago, on 10 October 1926 – were unrolled and opened again in the main hall of the Curia of the Custody on 24 July. The five large frescoed canvases, kept in the Custody’s stores, revealed the faces of the eleven martyrs – of whom 7 were Spanish friars, one […]
On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 30, at the monastery of the Poor Clares in Jerusalem, the diocesan phase of the beatification cause of the Servant of God Sister Maria of the Trinity (Louisa Jaques) was officially opened. For the occasion, the Franciscan community of Jerusalem, together with the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, gathered in prayer at the Poor Clares’ convent. Her life Louisa-Elisa Jaques was born in 1901 in South Africa. She was a woman […]
Fr. Paul Zahner, the new Commissar of the Holy Land for Switzerland and the principality of Liechtenstein, and fr. Louis Bischof, secretary and bursar of the Commissariat, belonging to the Swiss Custody, arrived in Jerusalem from Switzerland the week before Advent. Fr. Paul Zahner, formerly guardian of the community, theologian and expert in Franciscan spirituality, succeeds in the position of Commissar his predecessor Gottfried Egger, who held this role for 20 years: this is the occasion for fr. Paul to […]
