Past the monastery's giant gates, a monk led me straight to Al-Muharraq's oldest church. Inside, he pointed at a patch of the carpet beside the iconostasis and explained that a miraculous well from which Jesus once drank had stood on this spot. "We usually say that it ran out of water, but in truth it was buried", purportedly to stop its flow of miracles. Such miracles, however, the monk went on, continue to occur to this day.
