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The museums of the Franciscans in Jerusalem, 120 years at the service of Christian history in the Holy Land
This year the Terra Sancta Museum celebrates its ten years of existence. However, this project, started by the Custos Emeritus Fr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa in 2012, does not mark the start of ...
Lorraine Abu Azizeh : when architecture and restoration are combined in the Middle East
The Terra Sancta Museum is proud to include in its teams several international experts who have been working for more than five years on it. They include Lorraine Abu Azizeh, a French architect who ...
“We will be part of this museum”: a museum built hand in hand with the Palestinians
In the middle of the afternoon in the middle of the week, the studious atmosphere can be felt by anyone entering the Technical Department of the Custody of the Holy Land. Sitting at a desk, two ...
The history of the Catholic parish of Bethlehem at the heart of the Terra Sancta Museum
You all know Bethlehem, the Nativity, its grotto and its star, where you have perhaps been able pray while on a pilgrimage in the Holy Land. But did you know that in the shadow of this shrine there ...
Eyad Handal : « I felt really proud because they’re protecting objects and artefacts from our heritage, from this land. »
The Terra Sancta Museum aims to present the Christian heritage of the Holy Land and will exhibit rare collections of art produced locally. The portrait of a young Palestinian historian: a look at the ...
The Holy Land review celebrates 100 years of Christian history
It is about to celebrate its 100th birthday and yet many faithful and people passionate about the Holy Land do not know it. What are we talking about? The magazine of the Franciscans of the Holy ...
The restoration of the pharmacy of St Saviour, an activity in the heart of the museum
Previously on display in the old museum of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (SBF), in the convent of the Flagellation in Jerusalem, the pharmacy was withdrawn from display in 2013 when work first ...
Painting for the Holy Land : Giacomo Martinetti and The pilgrims of Emmaus
A native of Switzerland but naturalized Italian, Giacomo Martinetti was born in 1842 in Barbengo, in the Ticino canton in southern Switzerland. The descendant of a wealthy family which had made its ...
"His Majesty the King of Portugal for the Very Holy Sepulchre of Our Lord” (Register of the Condotte)
The Portuguese princes, as shown by their numerous gifts to the Franciscans of the Custody, were no exception to the rule that every Catholic sovereign had a particular relationship with the land of ...
Green, white, red, black, … How to understand the colours of the Roman Catholic liturgy?
Who has never wondered, during the liturgy, what made the priests and their assistants wear different colours throughout the year ? Green, white, red, black, violet, pink and even blue and yellow ...
Sixth anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of the Terra Sancta Museum
Today, six years after the first stone of the Terra Sancta Museum was laid, we publish the speech given at the Convent of the Flagellation by the then Custos, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, today Latin ...
Visiting the Terra Sancta Museum to recognize yourself in the story of the Revelation: the archaeological collections of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum
Daniela Massara, curator of the Terra Sancta Museum, tells us about her experience in the Holy Land, her meeting with the great masters of the Studium Biblicum and the importance of the museum’s archaeological collections
