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JUBILEE PILGRIMAGE 4-9 MAY 2001
DOCUMENTATION
[Updated: 21.04.2001]
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| THE CUSTODY OF THE HOLY LAND The Custody of the Holy Land, the specific mission of the Franciscan Order, founded in the first General Chapter of 1217, came, following the break from Romania (1263), divided into three Custodies: Syria, Cyprus, Tarsi. The convents of Syria and Palestine were destroyed in 1291 by the Saracens, and many religious were killed. The Custody of the Holy Land had a new life in 1333 when King Robert of Naples and his wife Queen Sancia acquired from the Sultan some holy sites of Jerusalem and their custody was entrusted to the Order of Friars Minor, confirmed by Pope Clement VI by Apostolic Letter of 21 November 1342. The Custody of the Holy Land, after the official institution in 1342, was at the beginning near the Cenacle in Jerusalem. In the middle of the many difficulties, the Convent of the Cenacle was inhabited until 1552 when the friars were forced to leave the sanctuary at the hands of the Muslims. In 1898 the Emperor William II of Prussia obtained land for a new church, consecrated in 1910, which carries the title of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin. Only in 1936, the Franciscans returned to live in a modest house, not far from the Cenacle. The Custody of the Holy Land is always the Guardian of the Holy Mount Sinai, which from the 15th century was nominated in the General Chapters or from the Order General and its Definitor; and, like the Prefect of the Missions dependent on the Custody of the Holy Land, confirmed by the Holy See. Besides its Provincial potestas held until 1847 when the Latin Patriarch was re-established (Apostolic Letter Nulla celebrior of 23 July 1847), jurisdiction over the clergy and people of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, and still enjoys the use of the pontificals (Apostolic Letter, etc.) Resided in the Convent of the Cenacle until it was lost; from 1558 resides in the Convent of the Most Holy Savior. St. Pauls Memorial at Damascus St. Pauls Memorial at Damascus is entrusted to the Custody of the Holy Land and is dedicated to the Conversion of St. Paul (falling from the horse on the roman road). The construction began in 1967 in memory of the meeting Pope Paul VI with the Patriarch Atenagoras in 1964 in Jerusalem. Capacity: 150 posts. |
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