{"id":45800,"date":"2016-06-30T12:31:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T09:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.proterrasancta.org\/?post_type=en-post&#038;p=45800"},"modified":"2021-09-09T17:01:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T15:01:16","slug":"twelve-years-as-custos-twelve-years-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.proterrasancta.org\/en\/twelve-years-as-custos-twelve-years-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Years as Custos. Twelve Years as President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c12 years as Guardian of Mt. Zion and the Holy Sepulcher.\u201d This is the subject of the special video produced by the Christian Media Center concerning <strong>Fr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Custos Emeritus of the Holy Land and now<\/strong> the newly nominated <strong>Apostolic Administrator for the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Elected Custos in May 2004, Pierbattista Pizzaballa was chosen to serve two more terms in 2010 and 2013.<strong> The longest-serving Custos in the history of the Franciscan Order<\/strong>, Fr. Pizzaballa has, <strong>\u201cwith courage and freedom\u201d<\/strong> (as Fra Claudio Bottini of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum puts it), brought <strong>a new spirit to the Custody, opening doors and windows to the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Among these <strong>innovations<\/strong>, many regard <strong>the foundation of the Association Pro Terra Sancta, of which he was president for the duration of his mandate as Custos, to be his most important.<\/strong> Founded in 2002, the Assocation, thanks to Fr. Pizzaballa, has acquired a new importance as <strong>the lay, operational branch of the Custody<\/strong> in service of the Franciscan Brothers, and is active wherever the Brothers are present.<\/p>\n<p>Under Pizzaballa\u2019s tenure, many accomplishments have been made in the field of<strong> conservation and renovation of the Holy Places<\/strong>, with the intention of preserving the historical, cultural, and religious patrimony of the same, and keeping the accessible to the local and international public. One such accomplishment is the founding of <strong>the Terra Sancta Museum, dedicated to educating the public about the Holy Land\u2019s Christian roots<\/strong>, a project carried out in recent years thanks to the collaboration between the Association pro Terra Sancta and the Custody. \u201cThrough the Terra Sancta Museum,\u201d Fr. Pizzaballa says in the brief video made to promote the new project, \u201cthe Custody wishes to speak in a modern and updated fashion to the pilgrims of today. That is, to communicate the same message of all time, but in a way\u00a0that is accessible to all, in today\u2019s language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These (and many other) initiatives have been made possible thanks to the close cooperation\u00a0between the Custos and the Association Pro Terra Sancta. This collaboration has also found expression in <strong>social work<\/strong>:\u00a0there is the effort in Bethlehem, for example, where the Association pro Terra Sancta is working with the Franciscan Social Services, as well as collaboartion with the Franciscan friars <strong>in Syria<\/strong>\u2014where conditions are critical because of the conflict\u2014where the Association also provides aid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Association thanks Fr. 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