Monasterio de Santa Catalina, Monasterio de Santa Catalina en la península egipcia del Sinaí. Diciembre de 2001.

Monasterio de Santa Catalina En el monte Sinaí pisado por Dios

El monasterio ortodoxo griego donde Dios se apareció a Moisés en la Zarza Ardiente. El monasterio cristiano más antiguo habitado ininterrumpidamente, con una historia que se remonta a más de diecisiete siglos.

This exhibition is brought to you by the partnership of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the Mount Sinai Foundation.

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Explore the Holy Summit of Mount Sinai

The Holy Summit of Sinai, also known as Jebel Mousa, is the place where Moses received the Law from God.

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El Monasterio
y la Capilla de la Zarza Ardiente

Conozca el monasterio donde Moisés se apareció a Dios y visite la Zarza Ardiente


Introducción al Monasterio y al Museo

Visita al monasterio y a la zarza ardiente

Más información sobre el monasterio y su historia

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Santa Catalina: La Gran Mártir


¿Quién era Santa Catalina?

St. Catherine's Feast Day Around the World

Arte divino: Las reliquias de Santa Catalina

Saint Catherine with scenes of her life and honor

Saint Catherine is depicted accompanied by angels holding up her halo. The symbols of the Mother of God adopted by Cretan painters in the sixteenth century refer to her learning, her struggle for Christ, and her martyrdom and triumph.


See the Relics in the Monastery Museum

For more than sixteen hundred years, the monks have carefully preserved the icons, vestments, manuscripts, liturgical objects, and other treasures in their possession.

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Click and drag to reveal the hidden texts in the manuscript

An international team of 23 world-renowned scholars, each an expert in ancient languages and manuscript studies, are working with the project to identify and describe the undertexts of Sinai palimpsests, after they are rendered legible via spectral imaging.

Textos antiguos ocultos

The Sinai Palimpsests Project is using state-of-the-art spectral imaging to recover erased texts from palimpsest manuscripts in the library of St. Catherine's Monastery of the Sinai, the world's oldest continually operating monastery.


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