The Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament, offers instructions about celebrating a Jubilee every 50 years.

Millions will arrive in Italy as the Catholic Church celebrates Jubilee, a once-in-a-quarter-century tradition.

With roughly €4 billion in investments and more than a thousand construction sites, Rome is racing against the clock ahead of the 2025 Catholic Holy Year – a tradition dating back to 1300 ...

Pope Francis has officially opened the Jubilee of Hope, which will see millions of pilgrims and tourist visiting the capital ...

and the big Vatican garage was built for the 2000 Jubilee under St. John Paul II. Pope Boniface VIII called the first Holy Year in 1300, and in recent times they are generally celebrated every 25 ...

Interestingly, Watson says that it was the lay faithful who started the Christian Jubilee tradition in the year 1300 by spontaneously showing up in Rome amidst plague, war, and financial hardship.

The official birth of the Jubilees is dated February 20, 1300, when Pope Boniface VIII proclaimed the first Jubilee with the bull “Antiquorum habet fida relatio” and, consequently, the ...

like every other such celebration since Pope Boniface VIII inaugurated the practice of holy years in 1300, Jubilee 2025 is intended to intensify our experience of God’s grace — the divine life ...