Tag: Minister General
Turkey: Missionary Martyrs’ Day
On March 24, the “Day of Prayer and Fasting in Memory of Missionary Martyrs” will be celebrated. This Day was established in 1993, as...
Rome: Feast Day at the Seraphicum
St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio was the focal point of a celebration held Thursday, March 14, 2019, at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of St. Bonaventure...
Vietnam: New Formation House and Friary
At 5:30 p.m., on March 2, 2019, more than a hundred people, including priests, religious, families, benefactors and friars gathered at the Annunciation Friary...
Rome: Requiem for Friar Donald Kos
On February 21, 2019, a Requiem Mass was celebrated for Friar Donald KOS to commemorate the anniversary of his death (February 4, 2018). The...
Indonesia: 50 Years of Presence in Sumatra
The first three Conventual Franciscan missionaries in Sumatra set out from Italy and arrived in the country on February 6, 1968.
After spending a few...
Rome: Revised Constitutions Approved
On this day, November 29, 2018, the Feast of All Franciscan Saints and the anniversary of the solemn approval of the Rule of St....
Venezuela: Visit of the Minister General
On November 6-11, 2018, the Minister General, Friar Marco TASCA, made a fraternal visit to the Provincial Custody of Our Lady of Coromoto in...
Rome: CIF Meeting
On November 5-9, 2018, a meeting of the International Commission for Formation (CIF) of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, was held at the...
Niepokalanów: Inauguration of the Altar of Peace
On September 1, 2018, on the 79th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War in Poland, as well as in the beginning...
St. Petersburg: Jubilee of Conventuals
On September 8-9, 2018, the Franciscan community of Russia celebrated the 25th anniversary of the return of the Friars Minor Conventuals and the 5th...
Greccio Christmas Indulgence
Prot. N. 35/2023
November 18, 2023
To the Brothers and Sisters of the Franciscan Family,
A few weeks ago, it was announced to you all that the...
A Fresh Perspective on St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in the Last Volume of the...
On Tuesday, December 5, 2023, the third and final volume of the Writings of Kolbe (Edizioni Messaggero Sant’Antonio di Padova Publishing) was presented in...
Bologna: We and the Rule: In Dialogue with Brother Francis Eight Hundred Years Later
On November 29, 2023, the Basilica of San Francesco in Bologna, Italy, hosted a public reading of the Later Rule in commemoration of the...
Poland-Gdańsk: Meeting of Superiors
On November 27-29, 2023, a meeting of the Superiors of the St. Maximilian M. Kolbe Province in Poland (Gdańsk) was held at the Meeting...
South Korea: Renewal of Vows
On November 29, 2023, the feast of All Saints of the Seraphic Order, all of the solemnly professed members of the Province of St....