The annual feast-day of the shrine was celebrated on 13 October in Capernaum (Kfar Nahum), where the presence, the preaching and the miracles performed by Jesus are remembered. It was here that he spent a great part of his public life. He “came to live in Capernaum,” the evangelist Matthew wrote, suggesting that this had become his city of adoption, to the extent that it was called “the city of Jesus.”. Simplicity and solemnity This year, the peregrination took place […]
On 15thJanuary, the Holy Father Francis received a delegation from the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (SBF) of Jerusalem on the occasion of its centenary in the picturesque Clementine Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace. The Studium Biblicum Franciscanum , today the Faculty of Biblical Studies and Archaeology of the Pontifical University Antonianum of Rome, was founded on 7 January 1924 at the Shrine of the Flagellation in Jerusalem. The private audience in the Clementine Hall Pope Francis gave a warm welcome […]
“You are completely beautiful, Mary, and the original stain of sin is not in you”: these are the words that open the hymn “Tota Pulchra”, which from the 4th century have supported and borne witness to the faith of Christians in the immaculate conception of Our Lady. This hymn has always echoed between the walls of Franciscan convents and has formed the hearts of the friars, well before the proclamation of the dogma (1854) to venerate the Immaculate Virgin Mary. […]
They are defined “bridges between the Holy Land and Christians all over the world.” There are more than eighty Commissariats of the Holy Land, Franciscan convents or houses with the task of collecting donations for the Holy Land and organizing pilgrimages, in more than forty countries around the world. However, not many people know that the “father” of all the Commissariats of the Holy Land is that of Naples, which still operates today, centuries after it was founded and which […]
