Dingle Port

More to come!

I'm not finished putting all of the Ireland pics up yet. So check again later for some more. I'm going to bed!

Gap of Dunloe

Playing at Rathvinden House

Wicklow Way

Celtic monastery and cemetary

Wind and rain

Walking in the Wicklow Mountains

Rathvinden House and stables

Out on a walk around the Rathvinden grounds

Playing in the grass, grass, grass!

Isaacs Hostel in Dublin

Playing at the park with Irish kids

Park in Dublin

Gaelic football fans. Go Kerry!

First tire swing ride

Gap of Dunloe

Printing

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Leighlinbridge

Relaxing in Ireland at the Rathvinden House

Ancient Edessa

In the background is the citadel of the ancient city of Edessa. Edessa was the center of the first Christian kingdom of Osrhoene.

The story is that "according to Eusebius, writing about the year 324, it was Thomas who sent the first recorded Christian mission across the Roman border into Asian Osrhoene. He tells how the apostle asked one of the disciples, a man named Thaddaeus (or Addai, in Syriac), "one of the Seventy" mentioned in Luke 10:1, to answer a request for healing by the kind of Edessa, Abgar V, called, 'the Black.' . . .

The Doctrine of Addai, written between 390 and 430, tells how Addai came to Edessa and in the apostolic missionary manner first sought out the Jewish community, lodging with "Tobias, the son of Tobias." The king heard of his arrival, sent for him, and was miraculously healed. The next day he ordered all his people to assemble to hear Addai explain the source of his great powers and tell 'the history of the coming of Christ,' and 'all the city rejoiced in his doctrine.' So goes the legend." "They believed in great numbers and of their own free will, as the narrative explicity states, for the king did not 'compel any man by force to believe in Christ.' "

These are excerpts from the book, The History of Christianity in Asia by Samuel Hugh Moffett

Bazaar at Mardin

Man washing hands and face before he prays

It is required for a Muslim to wash his or her hands, face, and feet before he enters the mosque. They see this as coming clean before God. In Islam, God does not look at the heart, but at the outside and one's works.

Just a little cat nap while work is slow

Mardin

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