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We joined them in a region of iraq that was once mesopotamia where human culture and learning really began. Its believed to be the birthplace of mathematics, writing and agriculture. And recently, the scene of some of the fiercest battles in the u. S. Backed war against isis. Father columba i think its the graffiti thats most horrifying to me. Stahl father columba, a benedictine monk from minnesota, in black; and father Najeeb Michaeel, a dominican friar from iraq, in white; decided to partner up. Father Najeeb Michaeel they destroy everything. Stahl . To rescue what old documents they could from places like this monastery, mar behnam, in Northern Iraq that goes back to the 4th century. It was occupied and defaced by isis. They seem to want to destroy everything christian. Michaeel exactly, to delete our history. To say that there are no christians, nothing before islam. And even here, the statue of virgin mary, they destroyed it. Stahl the monastery, according to historians, was sacred to both christians and muslims in medieval times. It had amassed a collection of manuscripts dating back to the 12th century. Michaeel in this kind of container. Stahl as isis was closing in, the resident monks hid the texts in these barrels, which they entombed behind a fake wall. And isis never found it . Michaeel no, because stahl for two years . Michaeel exactly, because the monks more intelligent that isis. Stahl when this part of iraq was liberated last year, those intelligent monks returned, drilled through the two walls, found the barrels and the precious, handwritten books. Columba so its the one thing that they couldnt replace, because you could rebuild a building. You can put a new cross up. Those could not be replaced, and those were saved. Stahl there were more than 500, now protected in a house in erbil, the capital of kurdistan. Michaeel very good condition. Columba very good condition. Early 5th century author. Stahl they include bibles, scientific works, and this grammar book filled with random doodles scribbled down centuries ago. Fathers columba and najeeb have been cleaning, restoring and photographing the documents they have rescued from all over iraq. In going through them, theyre unearthing finds like this copy of a 7th century contract believed to be a mandate by the prophet muhammed that says christians will be protected from their enemies and allowed to practice their religion. Columba the whole middle east at one time was characterized by pluralism, different peoples, different languages, different religions coexisting. Stahl you know, its interesting that there are people who are risking their lives to preserve these documents. Theyre the very documents that isis is risking their lives to destroy. You know, theres a war over these books. Columba theres a real war. Stahl in that war, isis swept across Northern Iraq in 2014, causing christians and yazidis to flee in desperate caravans. When the city of qaraqosh was attacked by isis, 50,000 christians were driven out in a matter of days many on foot, the ill on makeshift stretchers. Before father najeeb left on the final night of the siege, he gathered up as many books as he could from his monastery there. Michaeel we have many, many children. And many families with us. And i ask them to carry something with me. So they help me. Stahl carry the manuscripts . Michaeel even the little girls and boys, ten to 12 years, they carry the heritage and manuscripts from 13th, 14th century. I dont save it alone. Stahl they raced from qaraqosh to the safety of kurdistan as isis fighters chased after them. Michaeel i saw many hundreds of isis flags and cars. And they are ready to attack us and to cut our, our route. And kill us. Stahl frightening. Totally frightening. Michaeel i feel at that moment is the end of my life. And the end of the life of everyone. Stahl then it got worse. When they got to the checkpoint, the kurdish army, the peshmerga, wouldnt let them in. Michaeel the peshmerga try to attack isis by gun, and by fighting like that, and we saw the fire became over our head. Stahl youre right in the middle. Michaeel we are in the middle between both of them. I start to pray in my heart, our father who art in heaven, forgive us our sin. I start to give the absolution to all the population. To everyone, christian or no christian. And at that moment, sure, we heard a voice, many voice, the checkpoint is open. We are very happy and very quickly, we start to escape at that moment to be in the safe side in kurdistan. Stahl he said it was a miracle that all those lives were saved, but he wasnt able to save all his books. Isis burned the ones left behind, as we saw when he took us back to his old house in qaraqosh. Are you okay, father . Michaeel no. Stahl youre not okay. Michaeel im so sad from inside. Stahl he showed us what isis did to the 40,000 books that were in his library. Thats books . Michaeel thats books. Stahl oh, you can see the pages . And they just torched it. Michaeel this part, yes. Stahl the books he did manage to save are here. Michaeel heres the holy of holies. Stahl the holy of holies is a room in a secret location in the kurdish region of Northern Iraq. Its where father najeeb is protecting his most treasured possessions. Michaeel its a gospel, the new testament. Stahl wow, look at that. Michaeel palm sunday. This one when jesus go to jerusalem and with a donkey. Stahl this is by hand, obviously. Michaeel all is handwritten. And this one stahl look at those colors. Michaeel this with eggs, yellow. Columba the egg yolk . Stahl the yellow is made from egg yolks . Michaeel exactly. Stahl and whats the red, do you know . Michaeel pomegranate. Columba pomegranate. Stahl and it survived michaeel yeah. Stahl its just one of the 3,500 texts he saved from isis, books like these from the 16th and 17th centuries that were used by missionaries dispatched by the church to spread roman catholicism in this region. Michaeel st. Thomas aquinas. Stahl some show the ravages of time and war, like this fragment of the new testament written in about the year 500. And michaeel so, this is a parchment from ten, 11 century. Its a parchment with a sheepskin. Stahl what lang is that hebrew . Michaeel this is in in aramaic. Old aramaic. Stahl aramaic . Thats the language of jesus . Michaeel its the language of jesus christ and our mother tongue. Columba and the other thing to remember is that these arent all religious manuscripts. So, some of them are purely history. So those are ones that tell us about political events, and kings, and battles, and famines, and all of these other things. So its not simply history of religion, its history of every aspect of life. Stahl home base for father columba is 6,000 miles from iraq, at st. Johns abbey and university in collegeville, minnesota, where he spends his days with his fellow monks in prayer and contemplation. Hes also director of this library, the Worlds Largest repository of ancient texts, more than 50 million pages from both christian and islamic works, all photographed and archived in an online database. The collection includes the sacred and the secular, like this 1771 account by a priest telling of a plague that killed 45,000. Father columba found it in turkey. And this tax receipt from the roman empire in the year 222 for the purchase of military equipment. So how do these texts and these manuscripts, how do they relate to today . Whats the best lesson youve read about . Columba we can learn about places in our past where people could live together reasonably peacefully for certain periods of time. And then, very often what made it impossible was an external intervention. So the crusaders come, and that makes it very difficult for christians in the middle east. Stahl he learned that from this 12th century text that he found in aleppo, syria called world chronicle by michael the great about how the crusades triggered a backlash against the local christians. Until now, scholars tell us, the history of christianity in the middle east has largely been told from a western perspective. These texts provide historical details that cannot be found anywhere else and, when taken together, will rewrite this history from the point of view of those who actually lived it. A lot of the places youve gone to are under threat by some radical islamic group. And youre kind of just following them around. Columba in a sense, where the hotspots are. Stahl on this trip to iraq, he went hunting for old documents at the university of mosul, in a section of the city that had been liberated. Columba so one of our questions is can anything possibly have survived . Stahl the library here, once among the finest in the middle east, was reduced to rubble in the battle to retake the city. It looks like the apocalypse. Columba its unbelievable. Its totally devastated. Stahl so what do you think happened here . Columba it mustve been an airstrike. The u. S. Backed coalition forces, as part of the liberation of mosul. Stahl a bomb . Columba that may have been what started the fire. It mustve been a bomb. It came through the roof. And then, you can see it coming through two floors, and then presumably exploding below. Stahl but not isis . It was the u. S. Backed forces . Columba absolutely. So isis had been here, had done their damage, had burned their books, and this kind of destruction of the building that were looking at would have happened right at the end. Liberation brings a lot of destruction. Stahl the University Library used to hold about a million books and a collection of ancient maps and manuscripts. Columba its a horrible loss. Stahl in this age of intolerance, there are very few christians left in iraq. Many who fled qaraqosh with father najeeb have left the country. Others are here, in a refugee camp in erbil where religion remains at the center of their lives. singing even as their presence in iraq continues to fade, what will always remain, thanks to the work of fathers columba and najeeb, is a written record of their history and heritage. singing hard exhalation honey . Can we do this tomorrow . grunts of effort can we do this tomorrow . If you have Heart Failure symptoms, your risk of hospitalization could increase, making tomorrow uncertain. But entresto is a medicine that was proven, in the largest Heart Failure study ever, to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading Heart Failure medicine. Women who are pregnant must not take entresto. It can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. 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But we first laid eyes on him in arizona, where his former team held spring training. bat cracks this sliver through the fence of a batting cage made for a fitting introduction. We found dozens of japanese outlets angling for a slice, any slice, of ohtani in action. Cameras follow him to the exclusion of every other player on the field. And, so do the fans. We met supporters who traveled 5,000 miles to the Desert Southwest just to watch him train. Having glimpsed the ohtani phenomenon on the road, we were eager to explore it on his turf. Our search to find what all the fuss was about took us here, to hokkaido, japans northernmost island. Its home to the National Champion baseball team, the nippon ham fighters. Its also home to the sports most intriguing prospect. Shohei ohtani looms large in the snowy hokkaido town of sapporo. If tokyo is a fastball, sapporo is a curveball. Japans fifthlargest city feels not unlike a laidback ski village. But this is a baseball town. And this is the home stadium, the sapporo dome. Its here we sat down with ohtani. We broke the ice with a question about what wed heard was his Favorite Local fast food. Very important question. Innout burger or captain kangaroo burger . Shohei ohtani translated captain kangaroo. Wertheim better . Towering and affable, ohtani is working on his english, but felt more comfortable using a translator during our interview. I want to ask you about coming to the majors. But should we say, if, or should we say, when . Ohtani translated thats a tough one. I mean, nothing is for certain, so, i guess its if. Wertheim despite that cautious response, ohtani eagerly revealed which Major League Players he looks most forward to facing no less than m. V. P. Hitter bryce harper and star pitcher clayton kershaw. Ohtani translated i watch bryce harper, clayton kershaw. Wertheim a pitcher and a hitter. Ohtani translated yeah, unlike me, kershaw is a lefty. Wertheim you see a little of yourself in both kershaw and harper . Ohtani translated i actually do see myself. And i actually try throwing lefty sometimes. Wertheim how do you think youd do against kershaw . Ohtani translated just thinking about facing him makes me really happy and excited. I could just tell hes such a great pitcher through the tv screen. Wertheim how would you pitch to harper . Ohtani translated i would have to go with my best pitch, which is the fastball. I want to see how my best pitch fares against one of the best hitters. Wertheim likely quite well. Throwing his dancing fastball, ohtani strikes out batters at a higher rate than kershaw. Unfurling his violent, yet somehow elegant swing, he hits homeruns at a higher rate than harper. There are days ohtani makes baseball look almost laughably easy. Consider this performance last summer. On the very first pitch of the game, ohtani, batting lead off, hit a homerun. He then pitched eight shutout innings and struck out ten batters. Ohtani shohei wertheim at sixfootfour, the designated hitter turned pitcher reliably brings the crowd to its feet. When he threw the fastest pitch, breaking his own record, even opponents looked on in astonishment. Last year, you threw a pitch, 165 kilometers an hour, more than 102 miles an hour. How much faster can you throw than 102. 5 . Ohtani translated i dont have an exact answer for that. But im still young. Im still 22. I think theres more room to grow. Wertheim as seasons go, 2016 will be hard to top. The hokkaido nippon ham fighters took the japan series. Ohtani was his leagues m. V. P. About that name the fighters are owned by nippon ham, makers of japans bestselling sausages. And while, yes, the name resists serious treatment, the team itself is widely regarded as the most innovative in the league. Manager Hideki Kuriyama leads the fighters, also the former team of yu darvish, now an ace for the texas rangers. Can you compare this to anything youve seen . Hideki kuriyama translated no. Never seen anything like it. Never. Wertheim whats it like having a player whos your best pitcher and also your best hitter . Kuriyama translated hes so talented, its really tough to use him the right way, with the right balance. Wertheim if you thought moneyball the practice of using baseball data over intuition contorted a managers conventional thinking, try ov