This year, the celebrations that accompanied the solemnity of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus at Gethsemane began with the opening of the jubilee of the centenary of the building of the Basilica of the Nations. This place of worship stands on the slope of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem and is the place that evokes the agony and arrest of Jesus before his Passion. Fr. Francesco Patton, Custos of the Hoy Land, presided the solemn mass on the […]
The inauguration of the exhibition “Memories of St Saviour: convent, parish, museum” was held on 5th June in the Curia of the Custody. The exhibition is open to the public until 25th July. This exhibition, made possible thanks to the support of the AFD (Agence française de développement) and the NDC (Ngo for Development Center) was the brainchild and was conceived by the Terra Sancta Museum and intends to highlight the close centuries-old bond between the Franciscan friars and the […]
The Calendar of Easter Solemnities in the Holy Land Sanctuaries in Jerusalem is published below. The calendar is available in Latin, Italian, English, Spanish, French and German.
On the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the pilgrimage of peace of St. Francis in the Holy Land, Brother Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, pressed from a tablet, directly from the Grotto of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the button that lit the largest Christmas tree in the world in the city of Gubbio, in Umbria - Italy. Br FRANCESCO PATTON, ofm Custos of the Holy Land "Technology allows you to do things that were once impossible: laying […]
