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This ancient olive tree has being harvested in times the virgin Mary had wandered the grove. He has attained an age of few hundred years when the caliph Omar passed by in his way to pray at the Mary's spring. He was old when the crusaders of the Order of St. John (Knights Hospitaller) took over the land. Today his bark is tortuously gnarled, his leaves are spiky and dull green, while his branches are regarded as an emblem of peace.

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