Several bedouin families live in the area around the Church of the Forty Martyrs, known in Arabic as El Arbain.
The monks distribute foodstuffs to the bedouin on the feastday
One of the bedouin plays a five stringed lyre. The frame is made from simple branches with pegs for tuning the strings. An empty oil tin serves as the soundboard.
Thank you! I love these photos of the local people.
I wish I may I wish I might just be there.
Please Father pray for me..,I need to be there on the Day of St.Katharina!
Thanks for the photograph!