The Holy Valley – La Vallée Sainte – وادي القديسين

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LebanonPostcard presents a value Book: The Holy Valley – La Vallée Sainte – وادي القديسي by Raymond Yazbeck. The Book is written in English, French, and Arabic.

To the Saints of the Holy Valley, who protect our Lebanon, stone, and people, we dedicate this book…

The Holy Valley in three languages
Hardcover: 32 x 24 x 2.2 cm, 1700 grs, 275 pages, 500 photos of Lebanon, Graphic design: Lea Tasso – Printing: Watermark, Editions Trésors du Patrimoine, 2008 – Director Raymond Yazbeck

Table of Contents

– Monasteries, Hermitages, Grottos, and Churches of the Valley
– Sunset and Sunrise
– The Green Valley
– The White Valley
– Cedars of God
– River and Water Falls
– The Humble Valley
– Villages and Traditional Houses
– Villagers of the Valley
– Friends of the Valley
– The generosity of the Valley
– The Beauty of the Fields
– The Saints of the Valley

“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church; for you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the Spirit”

Gibran Khalil Gibran

Unforgettable Valley

The Valley filled with incense sweetness has become light-filled space for me. Here I walk along the gateway traveled by departed souls.

I step into the holy place. Amid the incense, the murals and the light. Here, as there I carry with me what is beyond the caves memories that transcend all time.

Peter Spielmann

Toute la vallée des Saints ressemble à une vaste nef naturelle dont le ciel est le dôme, les crêtes du Liban, les piliers, et les innombrables cellules des ermites creusées dans les flancs du rocher, les chapelles. Ces ermitages sont suspendus sur des précipices qui semblent inabordables. Il y en a, comme des nids d’hirondelles, à toutes les hauteurs des parois de la vallée. Les uns ne sont qu’une grotte creusée dans la pierre; les autres, de petites maisonnettes bâties entre les racines de quelques arbres, sur les corniches avancées des montagnes.

Extracts of the book:

Our Lady of the Vineyards – Our Lady of Qannoubin Monastery is one of the oldest Maronite Monasteries and the oldest on the valley, and the Maronite Patriarchal seat from 1440 to 1848
The room of the Hermit Sister Noelle Devillier from Toulouse (France), for 10 years at Our Lady of Qannoubin Monastery (1985 – 1995) From the past…
The body of the Patriarch Youssef Tyan – Patriarch (1796 – 1808) – Hermit (1808 – 1820) – Secret passage for the Patriarchs… – Fresco on the pillar…
The Colombian Hermit Father Dario Escobar of Our Lady of Hawka Monastery
Fortress of Aassi Hawka – Saint Anthony Qozhaya Monastery 6th century is the only inhabited monastery in the holy valley
Ehden Valley, the miraculous cave of St. Anthony – The museum – St. Anthony Qozhaya Monastery
The Church of St. Anthony Qozhaya is a natural grotto sculptured in the rocks – First press machine in the Middle East which was used to print the book of Psalms in 1585 at St. Anthony Qozhaya Monastery
Dilmass grotto – Our Lady of Hammatoura Monastery – 4th Century
Saint Georges Church – Saint Peter and Paul Monastery
Les plusieurs religieux maronites, hommes simples qui ne visent à aucune richesse, à aucune renommée dans ce monde. Travailler, prier, vivre en paix, mourir en grâce et inconnus des hommes.
Green Valley – Holy Valley
River and Water Falls
The Humble Valley
El Dimane Monastery 1939, Our Lady – Ceiling and Walls paintings by the artist Saliba Dowayhi
Hasroun
Gibran Museum – Saint Sergius Monastery, Gibran Museum and Tomb
St. Michael Church 1893 – The day of the funeral of Priest Joseph Abi Maroun Maatouk 1929 – Body of the Priest Joseph Abi Maroun Maatouk still intact on the same chair after 79 years of death
Ehden… Hasroun… Hadchit… Beqaa Kafra… Seraal… Qnat… Becharreh… Bqorqasha… Mazraat El Nahr… Beit Monser and more…

Alphonse de Lamartine

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