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On Oct. 15, 2025, Xavier F. Salomon, former Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, presented a lecture on the exhibition To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Auditorium. Salomon shared his personal experiences traveling to Jerusalem and working with the Franciscan friars who cared for the objects in the show. He also explored the fascinating history of the treasures, their enduring use in Christian worship, and the remarkable story of their journey from Jerusalem to the Frick.

On Sept. 29, 2025, in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Auditorium, Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, spoke in conversation with Fr. Stéphane Milovitch, director of the Office of Cultural Heritage of the Custody of the Holy Land. The exhibition, To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum, was on view in the Frick’s Ronald S. Lauder Exhibition Galleries from October 2, 2025 to January 5, 2026.

Discover the groundbreaking exhibition To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum (October 2, 2025, through January 5, 2026) with Xavier F. Salomon, the Frick’s former Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator. Xavier is joined by special guest Fra Stéphane Milovitch, Director of the Cultural Heritage Office of the Custody of the Holy Land and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Terra Sancta Museum.

Xavier and Fra Stéphane explore the objects in the show—on display for the first time in North America. Created across Catholic Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and donated to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, these gold and silver masterpieces and intricate liturgical vestments are largely unparalleled in the world, and many have fascinating connections to works in the Frick’s permanent collection.