On Friday 31 May, the day that closes the Marian month, the Franciscan community of the Custody of the Holy Land celebrated the feast of the Visitation, in the shrine dedicated to it in Ein Karem , The Gospel according to Luke (1:39-56) gives a delicate and intimate picture of the meeting between the Virgin Mary and her cousin: Elizabeth, who in her old age was desperate about the possibility of every having children, greeted Mary who had Jesus in her […]
A few days ago the exhibition “Treasures from Kings: Masterpieces from the Terra Sancta Museum” was inaugurated at the prestigious Calouste Gulbenkian Museum of Lisbon, which will be open to the public until 26 February 2024. The exhibition hosts some of the greatest works of art of the extraordinary artistic treasure of the Custody of the Holy Land, accumulated thanks to the gifts made by various European Catholic monarchs over 500 years. Unique pieces (religious articles, jewellery, ornaments and sacred vestments) of […]
The Custody of the Holy Land joins in the initiative of a day of prayer, fasting and penitence called by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, for 7 October next, one year since “the Holy Land, and not only, has been plunged into a vortex of violence and hatred never seen or experienced before,” writes the Patriarch in the letter to the diocese (please find attached the complete text). The Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, […]
"A gesture of solidarity to support the Holy Places and the needs of the confreres in the land of Jesus": Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, asked for it, just a few days from the Pro Terra Sancta Collection, the collection of offerings that takes place in all the churches of the world for the Christians of the Middle East. It is usually held on Good Friday but this year, due to the Covid emergency, […]
