The custos serves as a unique provincial minister within the Franciscan order, leading a community of friars while also being ...

D.C.’s Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America. It’s also on its website. Workers install a hardwood floor at the Washington National Cathedral, complete with the Jerusalem Cross.

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, the highest Catholic authority in the Holy Land, uses the Jerusalem cross prominently as an emblem of his office. It can be found at Christian holy sites in ...

Templars Today, a private association of lay faithful, signed an agreement with the Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization to ...

The long-awaited and elusive ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has silenced bombs and halted air raids on the Gaza Strip, ...

“Deus Vult,” meaning “God wills it,” was the motto for Catholic crusader knights fighting to reclaim the Holy Land in the 11th century. The Jerusalem cross similarly originated as the ...

Now, researchers digging in the Holy Land are sifting fact from fiction ... The tour buses that cross the checkpoint from Jerusalem to the West Bank carry a virtual United Nations of pilgrims.

Distances are measured, e.g. the nailing to the cross is at 3’306 feet from ... left us the account of her pilgrimage to the Holy Land, its sights, customs, and liturgical tradition, that of Jerusalem ...

On the Conquest of Constantinople is one of the most important historical sources on the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople.

It shows blue, green, yellow and red figures embracing a cross that ends in an anchor ... which began with visits to the Holy Land, the place where Christ lived his life. This pilgrimage was ...

A reminder of the devotion of Christian pilgrims coming to the Holy Land in the footsteps of ... port cities up to the Old City of Jerusalem. "This cross is a testament to the personal story ...