Ancient-Present Shooba (part 10)

That afternoon, we met up with the brother of a friend who wanted to show us his country. He works as a translator in the city, so this really worked out well for me since I don’t know much Arabic and DJ couldn’t translate everything all the time. Anyway, the first place he took us to was an ancient city that arose around an ancient Christian site of a female saint for whom God split a mountain so she could escape persecutors. Even to this day, there is a canyon where the rocks were split and a convent on the same site. Moreover, at this site, many people come to ask the saint to pray for them to receive healing. In fact, on the wall in the hallway going into the convent/church/reliquary, there is a recent (5 months) testimony of a man who swallowed some nails and came for prayer. After an open vision of two saints and Elijah, he went back to the doctor who did another x-ray and couldn’t find the nails. Part of the testimony includes the before and after x-rays, the business card of the doctor who did the examination, and the entire story in Arabic, which, incidentally enough, I had our Muslim tour guide translate for me. Also, near the burial place of this saint there are crutches and leg braces stacked in a corner by people who had been healed and no longer needed them. They are silent witnesses that God is still moving even in the ancient, traditional churches.