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...Anti-Lebanon range, the road curves past an elegant stand of cypress trees. Suddenly the village cascades into view. The flat-roofed houses of mud and stone climb up the walls of a dead-end canyon of brown rock. Nestled in a crevice is the dome of a small convent, and high above, on the crest of the ravine, looms the Byzantine cupola of a monastery that, according to its lone priest, is 1,700 years old. Below is a patchwork of tiny fields where villagers grow corn, tomatoes and grapes...
...Maloula's canyon. Trapped, she raised her hands in desperate prayer to the Holy Virgin. Miraculously the mountains parted, creating a narrow passage at the top of the valley that permitted her to escape. Villagers still dip their hands in a fountain at the Convent of St. Takla, built into the rock face, in belief that the water has miraculous properties...
...LaPiana of Leverett House and Kenmore, N.Y.; H. Michael Levenson of Dunster House and Trenton, N.J.; Gregory A. Loken of Eliot House and Littleton, Colo,; Paul W. Malony of Dunster House and Quincy; Sanford D. Markowitz of Dunster House and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Robert N. McDonald of Winthrop House and Convent Station...
CHURCH OF THE CONVENT, Julius Caesar...
CAESAR'S MONTICELLO DINNER THEATER. Company at 8:30, Sat, at 9. CHURCH OF THE CONVENT. Jullus Caesar...