The Custody has been at the service of the Holy Places for 800 years

Visiting the Holy Sepulchre today

“Pro Terra Sancta” Collection 2022

The Custody of the Holy Land is engaged in ecumenical dialogue

The Custody of the Holy Land helps local Christians

Custodia Terrae Sanctae
Franciscan serving the Holy Land

Fr. Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, lights the first candle at the Grotto of Bethlehem

Fr. Francesco Patton presided the celebration that commemorates the presence, the preaching and the miracles of Jesus

P. Jean Jaques Pérennès, OP, Director of EBAF et fr Rosario Pierri, ofm, Dean of SBF

Professor Michele Bacci, Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of Fribourg (CH)

The mosaic icon of the Virgin Mary of Aglona (Latvia)

Ribbon-cutting moment at the inauguration

The sisters Figlie di Santa Elisabetta in the chapel of the Maria Bambina house on the Feast day of St Elisabeth

From the left: fr. Bischof, the Custos fr. Francesco Patton and fr. Zahler, the new Commissar for the Holy Land in Switzerland

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The cover of the new book Un'enciclica sulla pace in Ucraina

The mosaic icon of the Virgin Mary of Aglona (Latvia)

Fr. Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, lights the first candle at the Grotto of Bethlehem

Calendar

OFM

Studium Biblicum Franciscanum

Christian Information Center

Hora Sancta Getsemani

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Terra Sancta Museum

Terra Sancta Organ Festival

Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land

ATS Pro Terra Sancta