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30 December 2023

The Hadrianic Column Base: From the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Terra Sancta Museum

Until October 2022, a visitor casting a glance in the dimness of the north aisle of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (an area known as the "Arches of the Virgin") would certainly have noticed the ...

18 November 2023

Exhibition at the Gulbenkian Museum: "a foretaste of what the Terra Sancta Museum will be like"

The Terra Sancta Museum, represented by Fr. Stéphane Milovitch, Director of the Cultural Office, and Fr. Rodrigo Machado Soares, Master of Ceremonies, was honoured to take part in the opening of the ...

5 October 2023

Craftsmanship at the service of the faith

The Custody of the Holy Land will celebrate, as every year, the solemnity of St Francis of Assisi on 3 and 4 October in St Saviour’s church in Jerusalem ; as well as in the 60 Franciscan ...

21 September 2023

An overview of the St Saviour’s convent workshops, from yesterday to today

In the heart of the Christian Quarter in Jerusalem, St Saviour’s convent is a hive of activity. If the old pharmacy and the Franciscan Printing Press are now well known, other traditional ...

13 September 2023

My experience at the service of the archaeological museum of the SBF

As a recent graduate in Economics and Management of Cultural Heritage from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, I was looking for an opportunity that would allow me to concretize the ...

5 September 2023

From the past to the present, Portugal has always been at the service of the Custody of the Holy Land

The call of the Holy Land echoes in all the hearts of believers who want to walk in the footsteps of Christ. Travellers have always set off from one end of the Mediterranean for the other, with ...