The Catholic community of Jaffa (Tel Aviv) celebrated the solemnity of the apostle Peter in the sanctuary dedicated to him. Peter’s apostolate It is here that a number of episodes from Peter’s apostolate took place, according to biblical- Christian tradition: the resurrection of Tabitha, the hospitality at Simon the Tanner’s house, and the vision of the tablecloth lowered from heaven. The church built here has the purpose of commemorating these events. The first foundation dates back to the time of […]
The meeting “Christian and Patriarchal Institutions Archives” was held on 16th June in the St Francis Room of the Custodial Curia of Jerusalem, as part of the major project of the Open Jerusalem Archives – which also includes the Archives of the Custody of the Holy Land. Started in 2014, Open Jerusalem is a project funded by the EU to identify, localize, classify and make accessible the archives on the history of Jerusalem in the 19th and 20th centuries (1840-1940). […]
In the respect of the Status Quo, the traditional visit to the friars and the Custos of the Holy Land was made by some of the Orthodox Christian Churches present in Jerusalem on Tuesday, 2nd April for the Easter greetings, which the Catholics celebrated on Sunday 31st March. The brothers of the Orthodox Christian Churches (unlike the Catholics who use the Gregorian calendar) follow the Julian calendar and will celebrate Easter on 5th May: it will then be the Franciscans […]
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 […]