Fifty days after Easter, on the day of Pentecost, Jerusalem remembers the effusion of the Holy Spirit that Jesus gave to his disciples gathered in the Cenacle. The Custos of the Holy Land, fra Francesco Patton, presided over the celebrations of the vigil in St Saviour’s church and those of the day at the Cenacle. St Saviour and the Cenacle St Saviour’s church and the Cenacle have a special bond. The Cenacle, on Mount Zion, is and was the first […]
Seven brown habits make their way, through the Jaffa Gate, to the new entrance of the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum, in the Holy City. They are Franciscan friars from the Custody of the Holy Land, who have been invited for a guided tour of the Museum, which was inaugurated after its renewal in early June. Gestures that speak The friars were welcomed by the Director and Curator of the Tower of David Museum, Eilat Lieber, together with the heads […]
On Tuesday 1 October, Fra Toufic Bou Mehri, of the Custody of the Holy Land, closed the gates behind him of the Franciscan convent in Tyre, a port city in the south of Lebanon, and together with his confrere, Fra Pierre Richa, left for Beirut. “A missile fell a few dozen metres from our convent,” says Father Toufic. “Two children who had sought shelter with us were injured, hit by some detritus. We are not here to be heroes, but […]
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 […]
