New Jerusalem

This week was a school outing to "New Jerusalem" monastery. It was fascinating, not just because we had to wear long skirts and headscarves.  At the end of the tour, the guide in the underground church told us that St. Helena had recovered something from the ancient church 6 meters down and that a spring had erupted "miraculously'  when they excavated.... oh, come on?  A spring when you dig? Really?  Even the Russians we were with were skeptical saying "if you Believe it, then it has meaning..."  

And don't get me started on St. Helena. Recovering " artifacts" of dubious distinction all over the world, resulting in poor people everywhere making pilgrimages? Wasting their life savings in pursuit of a fabrication? The biggest scam in history, for sure. Let's travel 200 miles to see the end of the fingernail of an obscure saint just because she said so? 
But it was also beautiful and inspirational, and if that is the ultimate goal then rock on...