A bas relief representing the three Saints of Lebanon: Charbel Makhlouf, Rafca and Nehmetallah Hardini.
I aimed through this work to gather our three saints in one Heart to symbolize that the heart of Lebanon is full only with Sanctity, Love and Loyalty, the characteristics of the three Saints.
On a Lebanese Eternal Cedar, in the middle of the Lebanese Trinity, within a heart revealing the Cross of Antioch, symbol of obedience, poverty and chastity, lived by our Saints all their lives.
On the left side of the work, the cross of the Order of Lebanese Monks, of which the three Saints emerge to sit next to Jesus. The right side holds the picture of Notre Dame d'Illge (the Virgin). The bottom of this work holds the universal symbols of Christ Body and Blood, the grapes and the wheat.
This bas relief was offered to Father Atanathios JALKH and is exposed at the Convent of the mother House in Ghazir.
To My dearest Saints, I ask you to bless Lebanon and its people so they may continue their human coexistence and peace may be established in the orient and the occident through the intercession of the Saints and the help of God.

The art work represents an important activity for eastern populations. This Egyptian bas relief, at the Louvre Museum, 7th or 8th century B.C. shows the work of perfumers. To the right: picking flowers. In the middle: the press, where the mixture is crushed. To the left: the final product poured in to amphora to get rid of impurities by settling the liquid.
The aloe is much sought today for ornaments or for the medical properties of its leaves and their odorous qualities, but this was different in the past; the aloe perfume is mentioned several times in the Bible (Psalm 44, line 9, Proverbs, Chapter 7, line 17, Song of the Songs, Chapter 4, line 14)

Athena, goddess of wisdom, sciences and arts, protector of Athenians; she corresponds to Minerva of the Romans.
Myth.- Daughter of Zeus, she emerged armed from his brain, the personifying according to the mythographs, the flash that symbolizes the intelligent power and the vivacity of creative spirit.
Warrior goddess, she was represented standing, wearing a helmet, her breast covered with a breastplate of goat skin, armed with a spear, holding sometimes in her hand a winged victory.
The owl is her symbolic bird and the olive tree that she gave to Attica is her plant. Her eyes are greenish-blue. Goddess of creative intelligence, Athena protects literature, sciences and arts and rules over all manifestations of the human genius and inspires the orators, poets, and philosophers.
Virginal goddess, eternally young, she is the "Parthene" (In Greek Virgin) in honor of which the Parthenon was build. Under her other name of Pallas, she protects with her statue or Palladium, a very old idol in wood, brought from Troy, her dear city Athens, named after her and honored by magical festivalsand small and big Pantheons. She fought for the Greeks against Troy in the Iliad and helped Ulysses in the Odyssey.
Fine arts- the most famous statue of Athena is the one of Phidias, known as Chryselephantine, made of ivory and gold and exhibited at the Parthenon.
In the north-west of the Acropolis there was a colossal statue of Athena Promachos, also from Phidias--- An old statue of Athena made of olive wood is kept as a national treasure, on the Erechtheion on the Acropolis--- Several statues (Napoli, Louvre, Munich, London, Roma and Athens, etc.

The reputation for wisdom and the greatness of King Salomon was spread in the entire region and even abroad. The Bible quotes a famous episode: the visit of the Queen of SABA, accompanied by a large escort, who started a long trip from the distant Abyssinia, the present Ethiopia, to get to Jerusalem. She met the King of the Hebrews, who justified his reputation for wisdom by answering all her questions and she left satisfied leaving sumptuous gifts for the King.

Ramses III was crowned towards 1198 B.C. He was acclaimed by a jubilant population, satisfied to see his country reunified. In fact, peace was reestablished inside the country but the situation at the borders was disturbing. The danger coming from sea peoples was getting clearer, threatening western and northern Egypt.
The antique world was undergoing a deep mutation.
The indo-Europeans, in their huge migration, disrupted the balance of the Near East, devastating everything on their way, in their search to settle in new countries. The "Libou" immigrants, coming from Asia Minor and settling in Libya become allies with the Libyan tribes, the Berber Timhiou, Tjehenou, and Mashaouash, in order to try to invade the prosperous Egypt to the west. In Asia, the Indo-Europeans invaded and devastated Hatti, Naharina the Amourrou, Phoenicia and Canaan. There, they created a big coalition to attack Northern Egypt by sea and land.

It is with humiliation and exhilaration that we greet the royal scribe and the intendant of the wheat loft of the Upper and Lower Egypt Khaembat. The perfumed cone dropped on his wig is a sign of festivity. Khaembat's grave (Thebes no 57)

These votive statuettes of Byblos, dating from the second millennium, were also made in Phoenicia and rediscovered by the artisan of this gold who will search soon in Ophir or somewhere else for the fleet of Salomon and of the King of Tyre (1st King, Chap 9, line 28, chap 10, line 11 and 22).
With the caustic zest of the second Isaiah (Chap 40, line 18, chap 44, line 17) of whom he may have been the contemporary and as some psalms may also be: 113 (line 12-13) 135 (line 15 and ss) for example, or later the Book of Wisdom (Wis chap 13, line 10), the prophet turns skillfully, ridicules the worshipers of idols and opposes them to those who fear the only master of the world.