Omnis Terra Celebration on January 15 at the Shrine of Manoppello to Recall Roman Pilgrimage

SHRINE OF THE HOLY FACE OF MANOPPELLO

OMNIS TERRA

During the special Jubilee Year of Mercy - with a memorable pilgrimage to Rome - there was evoked the procession instituted by Pope Innocent III in 1208 of the Holy Face from San Peter's to Santo Spirito di Sassia on the second Sunday after Epiphany, called "Omnis Terra". We remember the event in our basilica with the following program:

Sunday January 15, 2017

 11am         Holy Mass presided by Mons. Americo Ciani, 

                   Canon of the Patriarchal Basilica of St. Peter's in the Vatican

                   Procession in the interior of the Basilica with 

                    the monstrance containing the Holy Face and benediction

3pm:           Showing of the EWTN documentary 

                    Omnis Terra 2016, including the homily  

                    of Archbishop Edmondo Farhat

·          The illustration taken from “Liber regulae Sancti Spiritus in Saxia” (1350 ca.),  shows  Pope Innocent III with the Veronica