Watercolour
Charlene Brown
Wadi Qelt, said to be
the 'valley of the shadow of death' mentioned in Psalm 23, parallels the old
Roman road to Jericho, the backdrop of the Parable of the Good Samaritan.
St George’s Monastery
was originally built in about 500 CE, destroyed by the Persians 140 years later,
then rebuilt by Crusaders but abandoned after their defeat. Restored by Greek monks in the twentieth
century, it is now a site of intense Greek Orthodox pilgrimage.
We may visit briefly sites
such as Jericho where the action was in Biblical times, during a University of
Victoria travel study program in November 2020.
However, as we are unlikely to spend much time in picturesque and now-peaceful
locations like Wadi Qelt, I thought I’d paint some of them now.
