Tag: College of Penitentiaries
Vatican: New Guardian and Rector of the College of Vatican Penitentiaries
On December 10, 2025, the Minister General, Friar Carlos A. TROVARELLI, together with his Definitory, appointed Friar Jan MACIEJOWSKI, a religious of the Province...
Vatican: Friars of the Vatican Penitentiary Meet Pope Francis
On October 24, 2024, in recognition of the Conventual Franciscans’ 250th anniversary of service as penitentiaries at St. Peter’s Basilica, our friars were welcomed...
President of Poland Visits Vatican College of Penitentiaries
On Saturday, May 18, 2024, the President of the Polish Republic Andrzej DUDA, and his wife Agata, made a private but welcome visit to...
Vatican Penitentiaries Make Cultural Visit to Sicily
On May 13-17, 2024, the friars of the Vatican Penitentiary visited Sicily to learn more about its rich heritage of art and monuments accumulated...
Vatican: Patronal Feast of the College of Penitentiaries
On February 22, 2021, the community of the Vatican College of Penitentiaries celebrated the patronal feast of the Chair of St. Peter.
This year, due...
Rome: Meeting and Patronal Feast of the Vatican College of Minor...
Every February 22, the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, the community of the Vatican College of Minor Penitentiaries, celebrates its patronal feast....
Vatican: Feast of the College of Penitentiaries
February 22 is the liturgical feast of the Chair of Peter, Apostle. Each year on that date, the Apostolic College of Minor Penitentiaries in...
Great Britain-Ireland: Custodial Chapter Part I
From September 14–18, 2026, the Provincial Custody of Bl. Agnellus of Pisa in Great Britain-Ireland held the first part of its Custodial Chapter in...
USA: Second Meeting on Causes for Canonization
On September 12–13, 2026, the second annual “Saints on Their Way” meeting took place at the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in...
New Study on the Three Families of the Franciscan First Order: Evolution and Identity
The journal Studi Francescani has published a book by Friar Felice AUTIERI titled The Three Families of the Franciscan First Order: Evolution and Identity from the 16th...
Spirit of Assisi in Zambia: Between Theory and Practice
The next leg of the Spirit of Assisi mission took me back to Africa, this time to Zambia, where I stayed from August 31...
Brooklyn: CANTICO, a Franciscan Prayer Circuit for the Year of St. Francis
On July 15, 2026, the Feast of St. Bonaventure, Most Holy Trinity–St. Mary Church in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, USA, inaugurated...