EGYPT / 2007 / Liberation of Sinai - Oasis of Nabq ; Sharm El-Sheik ; Coral reefs ; Diving / MNH / VF .

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Tuesday, 5 June 2012 at 00:46
Item n°181447850
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Saint Catherine´s Monastery

Saint Catherine´s Monastery (Greek: Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης Monì tìs Agìas Ekaterìnis), in Arabic دير القدّيسة كاترينا commonly known as Santa Katarina lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt´s South Sinai Governorate. The monastery is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Built between 548 and 565, UNESCO report 60100 ha / Ref: 954 states this monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world together with the Monastery of Saint Anthony, situated across the Red Sea in the desert south of Cairo, which also lays claim to that title. In the area around the monastery, a small town has grown, with hotels and swimming pools, called Saint Katherine City.

Christian traditions

According to tradition, Catherine of Alexandria was a Christian martyr initially sentenced to death on the wheel. However, when this failed to kill her, she was beheaded. According to tradition, angels took her remains to Mount Sinai. Around the year 800, monks from the Sinai Monastery found her remains. Though it is commonly known as Saint Catherine´s, the full, official name of the monastery is the Sacred and Imperial Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount of Sinai, and the patronal feast of the monastery is the Transfiguration. The relics of Saint Catherine of Alexandria were purported to have been miraculously transported there by angels and it became a favorite site of pilgrimage.

History

The oldest record of monastic life at Sinai comes from the travel journal written in Latin by a woman named Egeria about 381-384. She visited many places around the Holy Land and Mount Sinai, where, according to the Hebrew Bible, Moses received the Ten Commandments from God.

The monastery was built by order of Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565), enclosing the Chapel of the Burning Bush ordered to be built by Helena, the mother of Constantine I, at the site where Moses is supposed to have seen the burning bush; the living bush on the grounds is purportedly the original. Structurally the monastery has the oldest known surviving roof truss in the world, a king post truss. It is also referred to as "St. Helen´s Chapel." The site is sacred to Christianity and Islam.

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Saint Catherine Area

6th-century hot wax icon

Saint Catherine's monastery, 1852

Icon of the enthroned Virgin and Child with saints and angels, 6th century

The oldest known icon of Christ Pantocrator, encaustic on panel

Crucifixion, 13th century

Holy doors

Madonna and Child, 13th century

13th century Byzantine icon of St. Michael, the Archangel

Transfiguration, 12th century

Emperor John VIII Palaiologos

Icon of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

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