On Day 5 of our pilgrimage, our cruise arrives at the Island of Rhodes where we celebrate Mass at 9:30 in the Church of Santa Maria. Rhodes is a crossroads between Syria and Greece, through which Paul would have traveled. In the British museum is displayed a small figure of a Mesopotamian rider mounted upon a camel. It dates from the Iron Age (1200-586 B.C.) of the Near East. This bronze figurine,
recovered from the island of Rhodes, would have been foreign to Greeks, and probably brought to Rhodes from Syria. It is not known when the camel was domesticated. Certainly by the time of King Solomon we read of camels carrying exotic treasures, to say nothing of Queen Sheba herself, from Arabia to Jerusalem. The camel could go for weeks without water and could carry up to 150 pounds. It’s nomadic Arab breeders found this beast of burden indispensible to the flow of trade across the deserts of biblical times.
On Day 5 of our pilgrimage, our cruise arrives at the Island of Rhodes where we celebrate Mass at 9:30 in the Church of Santa Maria. Rhodes is a crossroads between Syria and Greece, through which Paul would have traveled. In the British museum is displayed a small figure of a Mesopotamian rider mounted upon a camel. It dates from the Iron Age (1200-586 B.C.) of the Near East. This bronze figurine, 
recovered from the island of Rhodes, would have been foreign to Greeks, and probably brought to Rhodes from Syria. It is not known when the camel was domesticated. Certainly by the time of King Solomon we read of camels carrying exotic treasures, to say nothing of Queen Sheba herself, from Arabia to Jerusalem. The camel could go for weeks without water and could carry up to 150 pounds. It’s nomadic Arab breeders found this beast of burden indispensible to the flow of trade across the deserts of biblical times. 
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