Lorenzo Vita/ custodia.org: The streets of the Old City of Jerusalem were filled with the sound of staffs beaten along the route connecting the convent of Saint Savior with the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. They were the staffs of the kawas, the guards who traditionally serve the Churches of Jerusalem, who this morning led the procession of the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land who went to the place of the Death and Resurrection of Christ to celebrate the Exaltation ...more