On the shores of the Sea of Galilee, in Tabgha, a small church built of dark stone is in the care of the Franciscans: tradition has it that the events of what is known as the “Primacy of Peter” took place here and are remembered by the community on 17 May, as every year, at the end of the Easter time. Fr. Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, presided over the Eucharistic celebration together with Fr. Miguel Ramírez Arévalo, […]
The meeting “Christian and Patriarchal Institutions Archives” was held on 16th June in the St Francis Room of the Custodial Curia of Jerusalem, as part of the major project of the Open Jerusalem Archives – which also includes the Archives of the Custody of the Holy Land. Started in 2014, Open Jerusalem is a project funded by the EU to identify, localize, classify and make accessible the archives on the history of Jerusalem in the 19th and 20th centuries (1840-1940). […]
In the afternoon of 7 October, the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land gathered in St Saviour’s church in Jerusalem to pray the Rosary together and ask God for the gift of peace in the Holy Land and in the world, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary. Other initiatives were held in the various communities. The Rosary at St Saviour’s The prayer at St Saviour’s was presided over by the Custos, Fra Francesco Patton. For the occasion, an […]
Over 250 friends and benefactors of the Holy Land Franciscans and the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington, D.C., came together at the Monastery on Saturday, November 9, for the annual Mass and Gala. Franciscan Father Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, presided at the Mass in the Monastery church, and shared his reflections on the friars’ mission during the evening program. Father Custos set his remarks in the context of the 800th anniversary celebration of the […]
