The celebration of the memory of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows, which represents something unique to the city of Jerusalem, marks the beginning of Holy Week. Mass was celebrated on 31st March on Calvary at the altar of Our Lady of Sorrows, which separates the Chapel owned by the Greek Orthodox from the Latin Chapel of the Crucifixion. The wooden half-bust of Mary, given to the Holy Sepulchre in 1778 by Mary the Pious, Queen of Portugal is here: […]
After the great success in Lebanon, the opera “St. Francis and the Sultan” arrived in Italy with five performances in as many cities from 20 to 25 May. The performances were held respectively in the Cathedrals of Monopoli, Bari, Brindisi, in the Basilica of S. Maria degli Angeli in Assisi and in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli in Rome. The opera’s libretto was written by the well-known professor Bartolomeo Pirone – who was present in Rome – […]
At the end of the Christmas period, there is still time to celebrate a birthday: the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (SBF), the school of Holy Scripture and biblical archaeology of the Custody of the Holy Land, is one hundred years old. Some lecturers and students from the Studium Biblicum and some Franciscan friars from the convent of the Flagellation, where the Studium is based, celebrated this birthday with a moment of remembrance and prayer on the evening on 7 January, the same […]
