The Pope will visit the Church of the “Virgin of the Miracle”.

December 7, 2017December 7, 2017 FOS

After the traditional prayer at the foot of the column of the Virgin Mary, in the Spanish Steps, in Rome, on the solemnity day of the Immaculate Conception

EK celebrates All Faithful Departed at Fr. Alphonse’s tomb.

November 2, 2017November 2, 2017 FOS

This morning the brothers and sisters of Ein Karem (Jerusalem) remembered all those brothers and sisters of Sion who have already departed.

Jerusalem’s citizen finds out Ratisbonne brothers in his family tree.

September 15, 2016September 15, 2016 FOS

Moshe Felber, an Israeli Jew who lives at the neighborhood of Ratisbonne (Jerusalem), has recently sent to Br. Elio Passeto an e-mail with a very interesting research he has currently done about his family tree until get the generation from the 15th century. The most impressive point is that he found Fathers Alphonse and Theodore Ratisbonne Read More

Flore Ratisbonne: Portrait of a Jewish Woman.

May 20, 2015August 6, 2015 FOS

“A Jewess knows how to forgive.” That is how the young Flore, aged eighteen, ended her letter of March 6, 1842, in which she told her fiancé that she was ending their engagement. Her fiancé, who was ten years older than she, was also her uncle, a younger brother of her father, and he had Read More

6th generation of Ratisbonne gives news about family.

May 9, 2015August 6, 2015 FOS

Flore Ratisbonne. This week, Nicola Guillion, the 6th generation relative of Adolf Ratisbonne (Flore’s father and Alphonse’s and Theodore’s brother) gave us some news about his family. “He wrote to say that his grandmother, Jacqueline Guillion, great-great niece of Fr. Mary’s died peacefully yesterday evening (May 7th)”, said Sr. Rita Kammermayer, from Jerusalem. Source: Rita Kammermayer, nds

Zenit publishes news about the event of 20th January

January 22, 2015August 6, 2015 FOS

The Church in which the event of 20 January took place in 1842; in St. Andrea delle Fratte The known website Zenit.org published this 20th January in its Spanish version, the event of Apparition of Our Lady of Sion to Father Alphonse Ratisbonne, in the Church Sant’Andrea delle Frate. To access, CLICK HERE. St. Andrea Read More

Alphonse Ratisbonne and Sion in Jerusalem (video)

November 17, 2014August 6, 2015 FOS

This video is a slideshow with images of the work of Alphonse Ratisbonne in Jerusalem, specially in Old City. The video was made by Chemin Neuf Community in Jerusalem in honor of the Sisters of Sion, in May 2014. Support: Katarzyna Kowalska, nds