SAINT FRANCISCUS’ TRANSITUS AMONG FRANCISCANS OF JERUSALEM

The Dominicans of the Convent of Saint Stephen and the École Biblique celebrated the transitus – the passage from death to eternal life – of […]

ALONGSIDE HIS EMINENCE IN ROME

For the first time in the history of the Church, a Patriarch of Jerusalem has joined the College of Cardinals. On the eve of the […]

POLISH BROTHERS BACK UP THE LIBRARY

The brothers Jan and Michał (left to right), from Holy Trinity Polish Dominican Convent, spent one month in the Convent Saint-Etienne. Every summer, brothers from […]

EXHIBITION: THE IMPRESSIONS OF A 19-YEAR-OLD FRENCH IN JERUSALEM IN 1864

Left: Porte des Lions, Jerusalem, 1865 (photo : EBAF) From 11 to 18 September 2023, we showed 22 photographs from our collection at the Atrium […]

VINCENT LEMIRE: “JERUSALEM IS THE TOUGHEST TRAINING GROUND I’VE EVER BEEN ON”

The relationship between Jerusalem and Vincent Lemire has been going on since 1995, but this summer it took a special turn as his term as […]

HEBRON: NEWS OF THE FRENCH-PALESTINIANS EXCAVATIONS AT RAMAT AL-KHALIL

Our friend Vincent Michel, professor of archaeology at the University of Poitiers, sends us a summary of the excavation campaign at Ramat al-Khalil (Mambré Oak) […]

NO LET-UP FOR THIS YEAR’S MAJOR PROJECT !

As we reported last winter, major works have been taking place throughout the year in the campus’ main student residence. Not everything is finished, but […]

JORDAN: 100,000 SHARDS AND AN ARAMEAN OSTRACON

In the 1989 brochure of the Institut Français d’archéologie du Proche-Orient, the excavations at Khirbet Es-Samra are introduced as follows: “The research programme was carried […]