In Bethany, the community of the Custody of the Holy Land celebrated the memory of Lazarus, Martha and Mary, the friends of Jesus, at eh Franciscan shrine, also known as the “house of friendship, welcome and hospitality,” on 29 July. Jesus often came here when we went from Jerusalem to the Galilee or from the Galilee to Jerusalem: he would stop here, in Bethany, which in his time, like today, was a suburb of Jerusalem, a small centre on the edge […]
On Wednesday 8 November, in the Room of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception in St Saviour’s Convent in Jerusalem, Franciscans and Dominicans shared the annual appointment of the Dies Academicus. Every year, this meeting opens the academic year of the Ecole Biblique and of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (SBF), the most important Catholic academic institutions in the Holy Land and it is hosted in turn in one of the two locations. The welcome by the Dean fr. Pierri In the […]
They are martyrs and witnesses of the faith, men who exercised Christian virtues heroically and lived a life of holiness. About fifteen Franciscan friars whose lives are intertwined, at least in part, with the Holy Land and the mission of the Custody, who have been raised to the honour of the altars. At the end of the 19th century, the paths of the blessed Salvatore Lilli, the blessed Frédéric Janssoone and the blessed Mamerto Esquiú cross in Jerusalem. Eight Franciscans […]
In spite of all the difficulties caused by the pandemic in Italy, the traditional Day of the voluntary associations which support projects in the Holy Land, now in its 13th year, is again being held this year. The annual meeting of the Italian volunteers of the Holy Land will be held on the morning of Saturday 31st October, from 9.30 a.m. (until about 12.30 p.m.), wholly online and in Italian. The recent measures of the Italian government prevent a meeting […]
