The Franciscan Province of St. Paul (OFM) in Malta is happy to announce that Fr. Joseph Ciappara OFM, a newly ordained priest on the 5th July 2011, will be continuing his studies at The Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (Franciscan Biblical School) in Jerusalem.

This is a centre for biblical studies established by the Custody of the Holy Land in 1924. In 2001 it was erected by the Holy See as the Faculty of Biblical Sciences and Archaeology of the Pontifical University “Antonianum” in Rome. During his stay he will also be guiding the pilgrims in the Holy Places known to us through the Holy Scriptures.

The Minister Provincial with all the friars, his family and friends augur Fr. Joseph a truly profound experience of the Word of God in the Holy Land.