Saint Francis ad Cœnaculum Convent, Custody of the Holy Land
D-III, Registers of pilgrims
Held by Historical Archive of the Custody of the Holy Land (ASCTS)
Identity area
| Reference | JM-ASCTS/CR/Cenacolo/D-III |
| Title | D-III, Registers of pilgrims |
| Dates | 1926-02-01-1960-12-31 |
| Dates Start | 1926-02-01 |
| Dates End | 1960-12-31 |
| Level of description | Subseries |
| Extend and medium | Global extent: 1 file |
Context area
| Repository | Historical Archive of the Custody of the Holy Land (ASCTS) |
| Name of creator(s) | Custody of the Holy Land (CTS) |
Catalogue references area
| Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/d-iii-registers-of-pilgrims?sf_culture=en |
Identity area
| Reference | JM-ASCTS/CR/Cenacolo |
| Title | Saint Francis ad Cœnaculum Convent, Custody of the Holy Land |
| Covering dates | 1926-02-01-2000-09-03 |
| Dates Start | 1926-02-01 |
| Dates End | 2000-09-03 |
| Level of description | Fonds |
| Extend and medium | Global extent: 21 files; 3 selected and described files |
Context area
| Repository | Historical Archive of the Custody of the Holy Land (ASCTS) |
| Name of creator(s) | Custody of the Holy Land (CTS) |
Content and structure area
| Description | This fonds is part of the Archives of Religious Houses (or Archives of convents) held by the Historical Archive of the Custody of the Holy Land. The Monastery of St. Francis ad Coenaculum (familiarly known as the Little Cenacle) is located on Mount Zion, near the place where the Last Supper is commemorated and where, in the 14thcentury, the Friars Minor built the first monastery in the city of Jerusalem. The Cenacle (from Latin cēnāculum "dining room", later spelt coenaculum and semantically drifting towards "upper room"), also known as the "Upper Room", is a room in the David's Tomb Compound in Jerusalem, traditionally held to be the site of the Last Supper. In the 1330s, it passed into the custody of the Franciscan Order of Friars who managed the structure until 1524. At that time Ottoman authorities took possession of the Cenacle converting it into a mosque. The Franciscans were completely evicted from their surrounding buildings in 1550. The friars betook themselves to the nearby bakery, where they lived until 1560 when they transferred to the Georgian monastery El Amud, called St. Saviour's. On March 29, 1936 the Franciscans returned to within a few yards of the Cenacle, having bought the old bakery from the Dejani family that held the Cenacle and transformed it into the Convent of St. Francis, and the Church ad Coenaculum. Structure of the fonds: global extent: 21 files; Feb. 1926 feb. - 3 Sept. 2000 Series A, Convent’s chapter. Global extent: 1 file; 18 Aug. 1986 - 8 Feb. 1993 Series B, Correspondence. Global extent: 1 file; 21 Dec. 1980 - 9 Dec. 1993 Series C, Holy Masses. Global extent: 2 files; 23 Apr. 1936 - 5 Jan. 1971 Series D, Chronicles and memoirs. Global extent: 17 files; Feb. 1926 - 3 Sept. 2000 D-I, Various memoirs. Global extent: 5 files; 17 May 1948 - 14 June 1962 D-II, Registers of pilgrim priest. Global extent: 7 files; 9 Jan. 1971 - 3 Sept. 2000 D-III, Registers of pilgrims. Global extent: 1 file; Feb. 1926 - [mid XXth century] D-IV, Chronicles. Global extent: 4 files; 5 July 1960 - Dec. 1997 |
| Accruals | The collection is closed. |
Conditions of access and use
| Conditions governing access | Subject to the authorization of Historical Archive of the Custody of the Holy Land (ASCTS) |
| Finding aids | L’Archivio storico della Custodia di Terra Santa, Inventario (1230 – 1970), a cura di Andrea Maiarelli, Tomo III, Fondazione Terra Santa - Milano Edizioni Terra Santa - Milano, 2012, p. 875-877. |
Catalogue references area
| Rules or conventions | International standard for archival description, General, etc. |
| Date of the catalogue | Catalogue prepared on 2018 |
| Archivist's notes | Inventory of a range of 3 items from the Saint Francis ad Cœnaculum Convent’s records (1926-[mid XXth century]), held by the Historical Archive of the Custody of the Holy Land (Jerusalem), made and translated by Maria Chiara Rioli, 2017-2018. |
| Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/saint-francis-ad-coenaculum-convent-custody-of-the-holy-land?sf_culture=en |