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  • Dingle peninsula. Kilmalkedar monastery, founded in the seventh century, is located on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry and is spread out over ten acres.  The site contains a church, ogham stone, oratory, sundial, several cross-inscribed slabs, and two houses.  It includes structures built in the Early Christian era through ones built in the fifteenth century.  Although primarily a Christian site, it includes some pagan elements.  Supposedly, it was founded by Saint Maolcethair, son of the King of Ulster, who died at this site in 636.  He chose it because of its proximity to Mount Brandon, a pre-Christian religious symbol, and the pilgrim’s track which leads to Mount Brandon passes through Kilmalkedar. ogham stone. Ogham is is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the Old Irish language,.Founded in the seventh century, Kilmakedar is located on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry and is spread out over ten acres.  The site contains a church, ogham stone, oratory, sundial, several cross-inscribed slabs, and two houses.  It includes structures built in the Early Christian era through ones built in the fifteenth century.  Although primarily a Christian site, it includes some pagan elements.  Supposedly, it was founded by Saint Maolcethair, son of the King of Ulster, who died at this site in 636.  He chose it because of its proximity to Mount Brandon, a pre-Christian religious symbol, and the pilgrim’s track which leads to Mount Brandon passes through Kilmalkedar.
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  • Dingle peninsula. Kilmalkedar monastery, founded in the seventh century, is located on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry and is spread out over ten acres.  The site contains a church, ogham stone, oratory, sundial, several cross-inscribed slabs, and two houses.  It includes structures built in the Early Christian era through ones built in the fifteenth century.  Although primarily a Christian site, it includes some pagan elements.  Supposedly, it was founded by Saint Maolcethair, son of the King of Ulster, who died at this site in 636.  He chose it because of its proximity to Mount Brandon, a pre-Christian religious symbol, and the pilgrim’s track which leads to Mount Brandon passes through Kilmalkedar. ogham stone. Ogham is is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the Old Irish language,.Founded in the seventh century, Kilmakedar is located on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry and is spread out over ten acres.  The site contains a church, ogham stone, oratory, sundial, several cross-inscribed slabs, and two houses.  It includes structures built in the Early Christian era through ones built in the fifteenth century.  Although primarily a Christian site, it includes some pagan elements.  Supposedly, it was founded by Saint Maolcethair, son of the King of Ulster, who died at this site in 636.  He chose it because of its proximity to Mount Brandon, a pre-Christian religious symbol, and the pilgrim’s track which leads to Mount Brandon passes through Kilmalkedar.
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  • Dingle peninsula. Kilmalkedar monastery, an ogham stone. Ogham is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the Old Irish language. Founded in the seventh century, Kilmakedar is located on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry and is spread out over ten acres. The site contains a church, ogham stone, oratory, sundial, several cross-inscribed slabs, and two houses. It includes structures built in the Early Christian era through ones built in the fifteenth century. Although primarily a Christian site, it includes some pagan elements. Supposedly, it was founded by Saint Maolcethair, son of the King of Ulster, who died at this site in 636. He chose it because of its proximity to Mount Brandon, a pre-Christian religious symbol, and the pilgrim’s track which leads to Mount Brandon passes through Kilmalkedar.
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  • Cairo, the last zabbalins,  Cairo's army of garbage people who make their living recycling rubbish. This is a traditional coptic christian minority activity. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Cairo, the last potters, a traditional coptic christian minority activity. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Cairo, the last potters, a traditional coptic christian minority activity. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Cairo, the last zabbalins,  Cairo's army of garbage people who make their living recycling rubbish. This is a traditional coptic christian minority activity. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
    em2610121.jpg
  • Cairo, the last potters, a traditional coptic christian minority activity. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
    em2610114.jpg
  • St Antony coptic monastery, in the night the monks prepare the bread. The monastey, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the "living stones" as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Cairo, the last potters, a traditional coptic christian minority activity. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, in the night the monks prepare the bread. The monastey, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
    em2611601.jpg
  • Cairo, the last potters, a traditional coptic christian minority activity. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Cairo, the last potters, a traditional coptic christian minority activity. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the "living stones" as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Mar Antonios maronite monastery near Becharre; is one of the most important holy places for christian .maronites of Lebanon. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Kibbutz Kinneret in the South-West of the Kinneret (The Sea of Galilee). The religioyus shopping center for Christian pilgrims. Today the Yardenit site, located at the entrance to the Kibbutz on the bank of the Jordan River, is filled every day with Christian pilgrims baptized here, in the place where John the Baptists baptized Jesus. The traditional baptizing location was near Jericho but officially for security reasons, and also for touristic business reasons the State of Israel and the Kinneret Group moved the baptism site north, where the Sea of Galilee pours into the Jordan River.
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  • Cairo, the last potters, a traditional coptic christian minority activity. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
    em2610104.jpg
  • Cairo, the last zabbalins,  Cairo's army of garbage people who make their living recycling rubbish. This is a traditional coptic christian minority activity. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
    em2610120.jpg
  • Kibbutz Kinneret in the South-West of the Kinneret (The Sea of Galilee). The religioyus shopping center for Christian pilgrims. Today the Yardenit site, located at the entrance to the Kibbutz on the bank of the Jordan River, is filled every day with Christian pilgrims baptized here, in the place where John the Baptists baptized Jesus. The traditional baptizing location was near Jericho but officially for security reasons, and also for touristic business reasons the State of Israel and the Kinneret Group moved the baptism site north, where the Sea of Galilee pours into the Jordan River.
    em2501103.jpg
  • Kibbutz Kinneret in the South-West of the Kinneret (The Sea of Galilee). The religioyus shopping center for Christian pilgrims. Today the Yardenit site, located at the entrance to the Kibbutz on the bank of the Jordan River, is filled every day with Christian pilgrims baptized here, in the place where John the Baptists baptized Jesus. The traditional baptizing location was near Jericho but officially for security reasons, and also for touristic business reasons the State of Israel and the Kinneret Group moved the baptism site north, where the Sea of Galilee pours into the Jordan River.
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  • Old Cairo. St Barbara Coptyc church, holy mass. Built on the ruins of a 5th century church the present church dates to the 12th century. The fine wooden iconostasis with inlays of ivory is from the 13th century. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Cathedral of St Domnius, composed of three different sections of different ages. The main part is Emperor Diocletian's mausoleum  built, like the rest of the palace, with white local limestone and marble of high quality.Roman sarcophagus with classical sculptures reused as christian subjects.
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  • Santa Cruz Catholic church, one of the oldest of Fort Cochin. Kerala, and Cochin, have a strong Christian minority.
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  • Santa Cruz Catholic church, one of the oldest of Fort Cochin. Kerala, and Cochin, have a strong Christian minority.
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  • maronite monastery in Lebanon's northern mountains. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Beirut Maronite worker in a textile factory. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Old Cairo, coptic cemetery. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Old Cairo, Al Muallaqa coptic church , known as "The hanging church" dedicated to the Holy Virgin. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
    em2610101.jpg
  • Old Cairo. St Barbara Coptyc church, holy mass. Built on the ruins of a 5th century church the present church dates to the 12th century. The fine wooden iconostasis with inlays of ivory is from the 13th century. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
    em2610087.jpg
  • Santa Cruz Catholic church, one of the oldest of Fort Cochin. Kerala, and Cochin, have a strong Christian minority.
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  • Santa Cruz Catholic church, one of the oldest of Fort Cochin. Kerala, and Cochin, have a strong Christian minority.
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  • Santa Cruz Catholic church, one of the oldest of Fort Cochin. Kerala, and Cochin, have a strong Christian minority.
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  • Santa Cruz Catholic church, one of the oldest of Fort Cochin. Kerala, and Cochin, have a strong Christian minority.
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  • Santa Cruz Catholic church, one of the oldest of Fort Cochin. Our Lady of Fatima holiday. Kerala, and Cochin, have a strong Christian minority.
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  • Mother Teresa and communist poster, symbolises Kerala, with a strong Christian minorità and traditional Communist governement.
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  • Old Cairo, Coptic Museum is the world 's finest collection of Coptic religious and secular art from 300 to 1000 AD. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
    em2610127.jpg
  • Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Beirut Maronite worker in a textile factory. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Beirut Maronite worker in a textile factory. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
    em2410001.jpg
  • Old Cairo. St Barbara Coptyc church, holy mass. Built on the ruins of a 5th century church the present church dates to the 12th century. The fine wooden iconostasis with inlays of ivory is from the 13th century. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
    em2610097.jpg
  • Old Cairo. St Barbara Coptyc church, holy mass. Built on the ruins of a 5th century church the present church dates to the 12th century. The fine wooden iconostasis with inlays of ivory is from the 13th century. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
    em2610096.jpg
  • Old Cairo. St Barbara Coptyc church, holy mass. Built on the ruins of a 5th century church the present church dates to the 12th century. The fine wooden iconostasis with inlays of ivory is from the 13th century. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
    em2610085-1.jpg
  • Santa Cruz Catholic church, one of the oldest of Fort Cochin. Kerala, and Cochin, have a strong Christian minority.
    em3500321.jpg
  • Santa Cruz Catholic church, one of the oldest of Fort Cochin. Kerala, and Cochin, have a strong Christian minority.
    em3500323.jpg
  • Old Cairo. St Barbara Coptyc church, holy mass. Built on the ruins of a 5th century church the present church dates to the 12th century. The fine wooden iconostasis with inlays of ivory is from the 13th century. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
    em2610083.jpg
  • greek-ortodox monastery of "Nôtre Dame de Balamand" .in northern Lebanon. .Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
    em2410012.jpg
  • Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
    em2410011.jpg
  • St Antony coptic monastery, in the night the monks prepare the bread. The monastey, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries.
    em2611667.jpg
  • Demre. The church of St Nicholas, built in the 3rd century, held St Nicholas remains. The legend of Father Christmas is believed to habe begun in Demre  when Nicholas, a Christian bishop, gave anonymous gifts to poor village's girls.
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  • Dingle peninsula. The Gallarus Oratory, a finest exemple of Christian architecture, with a roof like a ship hull.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries.
    em2611618.jpg
  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries.
    em2611617.jpg
  • Kibbutz Kinneret in the South-West of the Kinneret (The Sea of Galilee). Today the Yardenit site, located at the entrance to the Kibbutz on the bank of the Jordan River, is filled every day with Christian pilgrims baptized here, in the place where John the Baptists baptized Jesus. The traditional baptizing location was near Jericho but officially for security reasons, and also for touristic business reasons the State of Israel and the Kinneret Group moved the baptism site north, where the Sea of Galilee pours into the Jordan River.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. The monastery has a complex internal organisation that guarantees a total autonomy.
    em2611628.jpg
  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. The monastery has a complex internal organisation that guarantees a total autonomy.
    em2611626.jpg
  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. The monastery has a complex internal organisation that guarantees a total autonomy.
    em2611624.jpg
  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries.
    em2611613.jpg
  • St Antony coptic monastery, in the night the monks prepare the bread. The monastey, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries.
    em2611603.jpg
  • Giurdignano, Salento. The Menhir Vicinanze 1  in the "Menhirs Garden" where the peasants sculpted Christian crosses probably to save these venerated monuments from the destruction as pagan symbols.
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  • St Martin church is 1.64m wide and 10m long and it just might be the smallest church in the world. It used to be the passage for watchmen who would secure the entrance into the Diocletian Palace. At the beginning of the 9th century it was turned into a Christian church and consecrated to Saint Martin.
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  • St Martin church is 1.64m wide and 10m long and it just might be the smallest church in the world. It used to be the passage for watchmen who would secure the entrance into the Diocletian Palace. At the beginning of the 9th century it was turned into a Christian church and consecrated to Saint Martin.
    em8700616.jpg
  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
    em2210189.jpg
  • Dingle peninsula. The Gallarus Oratory, a finest exemple of Christian architecture, with a roof like a ship hull.
    em7213016.jpg
  • Dingle peninsula. The Gallarus Oratory, a finest exemple of Christian architecture, with a roof like a ship hull.
    em7213056.jpg
  • Demre. The church of St Nicholas, built in the 3rd century, held St Nicholas remains. The legend of Father Christmas is believed to habe begun in Demre  when Nicholas, a Christian bishop, gave anonymous gifts to poor village's girls.
    em2710317.jpg
  • Demre. The church of St Nicholas, built in the 3rd century, held St Nicholas remains. The legend of Father Christmas is believed to habe begun in Demre  when Nicholas, a Christian bishop, gave anonymous gifts to poor village's girls.
    em2710314.jpg
  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
    em2210185.jpg
  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
    em2210183.jpg
  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
    em2210174.jpg
  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
    em2210169.jpg
  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
    em2210166.jpg
  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
    em2210161.jpg
  • Kibbutz Kinneret in the South-West of the Kinneret (The Sea of Galilee). Today the Yardenit site, located at the entrance to the Kibbutz on the bank of the Jordan River, is filled every day with Christian pilgrims baptized here, in the place where John the Baptists baptized Jesus. The traditional baptizing location was near Jericho but officially for security reasons, and also for touristic business reasons the State of Israel and the Kinneret Group moved the baptism site north, where the Sea of Galilee pours into the Jordan River.
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  • Kibbutz Kinneret in the South-West of the Kinneret (The Sea of Galilee). Today the Yardenit site, located at the entrance to the Kibbutz on the bank of the Jordan River, is filled every day with Christian pilgrims baptized here, in the place where John the Baptists baptized Jesus. The traditional baptizing location was near Jericho but officially for security reasons, and also for touristic business reasons the State of Israel and the Kinneret Group moved the baptism site north, where the Sea of Galilee pours into the Jordan River.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. The monastery has a complex internal organisation that guarantees a total autonomy. The fortified tower to protect against frequent attacks from Bedouins.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. The monastery has a complex internal organisation that guarantees a total autonomy.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. The monastery has a complex internal organisation that guarantees a total autonomy.
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  • Damascus, christian maronite marriage.
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  • Damascus, christian maronite marriage.
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  • Damascus, christian maronite marriage.
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  • Damascus, christian maronite marriage.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Every year in September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon .celebrates the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then the  youngpeople burns old tyres and remains on the hills until the dawn, then comes back to village.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Every year in September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon .celebrates the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then the  youngpeople burns old tyres and remains on the hills until the dawn, then comes back to village.
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  • Old City, Christian Syriac churc of St Marks. This woman is praying in Aramaic, the ancient language of Levant at Jesus times. For the Syrian Church the basement' s room is is the St Mark's house and the Last Supper place.
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  • Nile Delta. St Damiana monastery, between el Mansoura and Damietta. Naive image of St Damiana, worshipped by Copts pilgrims. Pilgrimage to St Damiana, in a dangerous area for Christian, is one of the most important for Egyptian coptics.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, the oldest and most important church dedicated to St Antony. The monastey, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. The monastery has a complex internal organisation that guarantees a total autonomy.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries.
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  • St Martin church is 1.64m wide and 10m long and it just might be the smallest church in the world. It used to be the passage for watchmen who would secure the entrance into the Diocletian Palace. At the beginning of the 9th century it was turned into a Christian church and consecrated to Saint Martin.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Dingle peninsula. The Gallarus Oratory, a finest exemple of Christian architecture, with a roof like a ship hull.
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  • Dingle peninsula. The Gallarus Oratory, a finest exemple of Christian architecture, with a roof like a ship hull.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
    em2210188.jpg
  • Kibbutz Kinneret in the South-West of the Kinneret (The Sea of Galilee). Today the Yardenit site, located at the entrance to the Kibbutz on the bank of the Jordan River, is filled every day with Christian pilgrims baptized here, in the place where John the Baptists baptized Jesus. The traditional baptizing location was near Jericho but officially for security reasons, and also for touristic business reasons the State of Israel and the Kinneret Group moved the baptism site north, where the Sea of Galilee pours into the Jordan River.
    em2501068.jpg
  • Kibbutz Kinneret in the South-West of the Kinneret (The Sea of Galilee). Today the Yardenit site, located at the entrance to the Kibbutz on the bank of the Jordan River, is filled every day with Christian pilgrims baptized here, in the place where John the Baptists baptized Jesus. The traditional baptizing location was near Jericho but officially for security reasons, and also for touristic business reasons the State of Israel and the Kinneret Group moved the baptism site north, where the Sea of Galilee pours into the Jordan River.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, the Holy Mass. The monastey, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries.
    em2611606.jpg
  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. The monastery has a complex internal organisation that guarantees a total autonomy. Image of St Antony who lived as hermit in a nearby cave.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. The monastery has a complex internal organisation that guarantees a total autonomy.
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