Tag: Italy-Immaculate
Inauguration of the Kolbe Museum Park in San Pietro in Amantea
On July 18, 2026, I had the opportunity to attend, on behalf of the Order, the inauguration of the Kolbe Museum Park in the...
Franciscan Families of Sicily Celebrate 800th Anniversary of Transitus of St....
On June 24, 2026, nearly two thousand people attended a concert by singer-songwriter Angelo BRANDUARDI, and his band, to mark the 800th anniversary of...
Italian Province of the Immaculate Conception Celebrates Feast Day in the...
On May 5, 2026, the Italian Province of the Immaculate Conception (Sicily-Calabria) celebrated its feast day in Castelbuono, Sicily, a town with deep Franciscan...
Province of the Immaculate Conception Conducts Spiritual Chapter on “Protection of...
On April 14-17, 2026, the Italian Province of the Immaculate Conception (Sicily-Calabria) conducted a Spiritual Chapter, in two sessions, on the “Protection of Minors.”...
Palermo: Commemorative Mass for Venerable Friar Luigi LO VERDE
On February 12, 2026, a solemn Mass was celebrated in memory of the Venerable Friar Luigi LO VERDE, OFM Conv. The liturgy marked the...
Three Continuing Formation Courses in the Italian Province of the Immaculate...
0n January 19-23 and again on February 7-8, 2026, three continuing formation courses were held at the Kolbe Center – Villa Belvedere in Carini,...
Unification of Sicily and Calabria: New Italian Province of the Immaculate...
The Story of a Dream That Continues to Evolve
On December 13, 2023, the Feast of St. Lucy, an official proclamation was made announcing the...
Nine Around One: A Novena of Companions for the Eighth Centenary of the Transitus
From September 25 to October 3, 2026, a novena has been proposed: nine evenings of prayer culminating on the night Francis died, eight hundred...
Project No. 41/2026 – Humanitarian Emergency Following the Earthquake in Colombia
Project No. 41/2026 –
Humanitarian Emergency Following the Earthquake
in Colombia
The Provincial Custody of St. Francis of Assisi in Colombia of the Order of Friars Minor...
Hălăucești: Jubilee Celebrating 25 Years of Consecrated Life
On Tuesday, September 1, 2026, at the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Hălăucești, Romania, eight of the thirty-four friars...
Project No. 32/2026 – Replacement of the Cold Storage Units at the Soup Kitchen
Project No. 32/2026 –
Replacement of the Cold Storage Units at the Soup Kitchen
of the St. Anthony of Padua House (Zagreb, Croatia)
The Province of St....
Project No. 44/2025 – Drilling a Well for the Twikatane Ndola Vocational Training Center
Project No. 44/2025
Drilling a Well for the Twikatane Ndola Vocational Training Center
(Ndola, Zambia)
The Conventual Franciscan Province of the Franciscan Protomartyrs in Zambia has proposed...