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 […]
A historic moment: this is how it was defined by the Patriarch of the Latins Pierbattista Pizzaballa who presided over the Mass at the Filoxenia centre in Nicosia on Saturday 16 March for the ordination of fr. Bruno Varriano as Bishop of Astigi, thus becoming the new auxiliary bishop of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem on Cyprus. The last presence of a Latin bishop at the service of the island of Cyprus goes back 340 years. A numerous and warm […]
The Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, visited the Franciscan Province of Hungary from 11th to 14th November, on the invitation of the Provincial Minister Fr. Benedek Dobszay and Fr. Jakab Várnai, formerly the Visitor-General of the Custody. It was a short but intense visit, allowing meetings with youngsters in formation, a group of friars of the Province and a wider public at the “Sapientia” College of Theology of Religious Orders of Budapest. The presentation of the history […]