Overview of December 1:
Another day of rest sees the journeymen exploring the city of Damascus in the morning. Later in the evening audiences with four more high church officials: Pastor Boutros Zaour of the National Evangelical Church; His Eminence Bishop Ghattas Hazim, Vicar Patriarchal of Patriarch Ignatius IV, of the Greek Orthodox Church of all the East; and finally a jovial fellow, Bishop Isidor Battikha, Vicar Patriarchal of the Greek Melkite Church of Antioch and Alexandria and Jeruselem.