For 800 years, one of the missions of the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land has been welcoming pilgrims to the Shrines. It is a custom which, with the passing of time, has become liturgy: the solemn entrance and the procession at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. In the Holy Land, very often, [...]
Your Excellency, “Jesus will be in agony even to the end of the world; we must not sleep during that time” (Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 553). Pascal’s phrase reminds us of the mystery of the Redeemer’s struggle and suffering, which the liturgical year celebrates and makes present in a special way through Holy Week and the Sacred [...]
250,000 is the number of photographs that are needed not so much to remember the past with nostalgia, but rather to ensure a future for the books kept on these increasingly technological shelves: these are the more than a thousand ancient volumes that can be found in the General Library of the Custody of the Holy [...]
Every day, the shrines of the Holy Land welcome pilgrims from all over the world. Mystical places where the grace of Revelation is experienced. The Custody of the Holy Land has the task of preserving more than 50 sanctuaries, located in the current borders of Israel, Palestine and Jordan. From Mount Nebo, where Moses contemplated the [...]