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 […]
On 14th June, a group of Muslim women visited the seat of the Custody of the Holy Land in Jerusalem. It was a “first time” in an activity which for years has opened the doors of St Saviour’s Convent to groups and visitors of all religious confessions. The women, all from East Jerusalem, belong to the association called “Sehtak bel denia” (Your health is the most important thing) which deals with personal well-being both from the physical point of view […]
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 […]
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 […]
