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7 March 2016

March 2016 - Terra Sancta Museum: Let the show begin!

Three, two, one… Terra Sancta Museum! On March 17, the first section of a unique museum will open up in Jerusalem (Monastery of the Flagellation). This will be the first exhibition showing the ...

11 August 2015

Restoration of the collection of Ottoman firmans

[From custodia.org]  While work is under way at the sites that will host the Terra Sancta Museum, the Custody’s archivist Br. Sergey Loktionov is preparing the archival documents that will be ...

29 June 2015

Terra Sancta Museum, ceremony of laying the foundation stone by the Custos of the Holy Land

On 25 June at 11 AM fra Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Custos of the Holy Land, blessed the foundation stone of the Terra Sancta Museum in Jerusalem. The museum project kicked off with a symbolic ceremony ...

20 May 2015

19/05/2015 - The Terra Sancta Museum project begins to take shape

In the Old City of Jerusalem preparations are underway. Work has begun at both monasteries that will host the museum—at the Monastery of the Flagellation, the second station of the Via Crucis, ...

19 April 2014

The Project of the Terra Sancta Museum presented to the consuls of Jerusalem

The consuls and various delegations to Jerusalem, who arrived and were received one-by-one at the headquarters of the Custody of the Holy Land by Fra Pierbattista Pizzaballa, found themselves before ...

19 April 2014

Huge turnout at the sixth Holy Land Volunteers' Day

This year's Holy Land Volunteers' Day has closed in Rome in the presence of the Custodians of the Holy Land, including Fr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa. Among the attendees was Gabriele Allevi, ...