Flour Miracle at the St Gabriel Monastery Qustan188 Documentation of the Beth Qustan Dialect of the Central Neo-Aramaic language, Turoyo

Eliyo speaks of the flour miracle at the St Gabriel Monastery. Once the flour had finished. They were worried so they went and told the abbot of the monastery. He said, we shall leave it to God. The next day they woke up and their storage was miraculously filled with flour. The Beth Qustan dialect of the Central Neo-Aramaic, Turoyo, which is the language of Tur 'Abdin, South Eastern Turkey, with an estimated 20 families remaining in the village.This project will document socio-cultural practices of the Turoyo speaking community in Tur 'Abdin, focusing on vernacular tales, particularly those that demonstrate cultural interaction between Muslims and Christians, including Muslim visitations to the shrines of Christian saints, and consultation of soothsayers by Christians. Eliyo was born in the village of Beth Qustan in 1948 and emigrated to Germany in 1975.