SYRIA – Damascus, Ananias & Sweida

SYRIA – Damascus, Ananias & Sweida May 6, 2010

This is the first in a 15-part series of pics from Syria.

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The first order of business in Damascus was to visit the home of Ananias — where St Paul went after being struck blind on his way there. (You can read about that here.) Pictured above is my helper, Fr Isaac, also helping two young pilgrims, a Muslim girl from Malaysia and her boyfriend from China.


For various reasons, St Paul would not have been able to read these signs … they must be “new”.


A stone reenactment at the entryway …


Here’s Fr Isaac helping to educate the young Muslim woman within the walls of the home of Ananias; this room has been converted into a chapel.


In Damascus, you can see the old and the new all jumbled together …


Or, sometimes, the old stands amid the new as a reminder …


Here’s something very old atop something way older …


Ah … here we are, 1.5 hours away from Damascus, arriving at the Cathedral of St George & the Chancery of Metropolitan SABA in Sweida.


The first sight upon entering: The Salon.


What lies south of Sweida you ask? We’ll travel down that road tomorrow.

Podcast – “The Blindside” (in Syria); Article – Antiochian website

To be continued …


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