The Catholic faithful of the Holy Land have gathered in Nazareth for an intense weekend of prayer which culminates with the opening at diocesan level of the Jubilee, on Sunday 29 December, as all over the world. Pilgrims of hope The flavour of the feast-day was already announced on the afternoon of Saturday 28, with the entrance of the Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, and the Solemn Mass of the eve of the feast of the Holy […]
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 […]
During the “Time of Advent”, the Custody of the Holy Land is offering two initiatives to accompany the faithful on the path towards Christmas. “Pilgrims of hope” It is only a few weeks before the ordinary Jubilee of the year 2025 opens, dedicated in particular to the theme of hope. The Holy Land is still marked by the harsh reality of war, with its consequences: the absence of pilgrims, the economic crisis and the lack of confidence in the future. 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 […]
