The Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land dedicated Easter Monday to the pilgrimage to Emmaus, in the village of El-Qubeibeh, 11 kilometres (about 7 miles) from Jerusalem. In the shrine dedicated to St Simon and St Cleopas, the Custos of the Holy Land, fr. Francesco Patton, celebrated the Solemn Mass. The Gospel of the day recalls the episode of the two disciples who were returning in sadness to their homes in Emmaus and how Jesus accompanied them and […]
The presentation of the Ancient Pilgrimage in Holy Land Digital Library (APHL Digital Library) was held on 19th April in the St Francis Room in St Saviour’s Convent in Jerusalem. This is the largest database in the world on printed travel literature in the Holy Land between the 15th and 18th centuries. The aim of the digital initiative, curated by Marco Callegari and Fabrizio Fossati, is to better value the itineraries and the travel diaries that are not only in the […]
The eleven martyrs of Damascus who will be canonized on 20 October in St Peter’s Square include Fra Nicanor Ascanio Soria: belonging to the Diocese of Madrid. He spent most of his life in Spain. The Lord called him to martyrdom only one year after his arrival in the Holy Land. The desamortización Nicanor was born in 1814 in a village near Madrid, Villarejo de Salvanés. Brought up in a very conservative environment of faith, at 16 he donned the […]
The Congress of Italian-language Commissaries of the Holy Land (the Conference brings together, as well as Italy, some Slav countries such as Poland, Slovenia and Croatia, and Malta) opened this morning in Milan at the Angelicum in Piazza Sant’Angelo, in the presence of the Custos Fr. Francesco Patton. After the presentation of the programme by the Chairman of the Italian Commissaries, Fr. Sergio Galdi, Commissary General of Naples, the Father Custos outlined the framework in which the Congress is taking […]
