Photos show monks and nuns harvesting olives on the Holy Land’s Mount of Olives

Two millennia later, the mostly Catholic monks and nuns here on the Mount of Olives who harvest on the terraces facing Jerusalem’s Old City see the intense work as a form of reverence and prayer. “The olive has a vocation,” said the Rev. Diego Dalla Gassa as he operated a loud modern press to make...

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