The entrance of the Cross through the door of the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth marks the start of the Jubilee in the Holy Land. On Sunday 29 December, the feast-day of the Holy Family, following the indications of the Bull of Indiction of the Jubilee “Spes non confundit”, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, like all the bishops in the world, opened the Holy Year for the diocese of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which in addition to Israel and the Palestinian […]
The exhibition on the history of the Franciscans’ printing press in Jerusalem, from its creation in 1847 until 1948, was inaugurated in Milan on 27 November at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. An extraordinary feat of the centuries-old mission of the Friars Minor in the Holy Land. In the middle of the 19th century, in a Jerusalem under the iron-fisted control of the Ottomans, the Franciscans were the first in the whole of Palestine to print in Arabic. This […]
The cause of canonization of Sister Mary of the Trinity (in the world, Louisa Jaques), a Poor Clare from St Clare’s monastery, has opened in Jerusalem. The announcement was made on 29 November 2024, the feast-day of all the saints of the Franciscan family. On this date, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem published the “Letter to the whole Diocese” and the Edict, signed by himself, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa. These documents officially communicate the opening of the cause to all the […]
An extraordinary event was held on 27th October in the Franciscan convent of Tripoli. We know from the Franciscan sources that St Francis, after the historic meeting in Damietta in 1219, returned to the land of Syria in March 1220, staying there for several months and consolidating the convents founded by Father Elia da Cortona from 1217. The event organized by the Custody of the Holy Land, the Italian Embassy and the Italian Institute for Culture, took place in the […]
