Pope’s tree flourishes while others wither

23 07 2008

.- In the Jubilee Year of 2000, Pope John Paul II made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land stopping at one point to bless an olive tree on the Mount of the Beatitudes. A forester with the Jewish National Fund reports that this tree is the only one producing olives this year.

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Too bad there dont seem to be any photos of this tree because I would love to see it.