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Saint Catherine's Monastery (Arabic: دير القدّيسة كاترين Dayr al-Qiddīsa Katrīn; Greek: Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.
In 1607, Rose of Lima continued the efforts for the creation of a monastery, obtaining land and an image of Saint Catherine of Siena from Rome, which to this day is exhibited in the choir of the Monastery. According to tradition, Rose met and spoke to Lucia Guerra de la Daga, a 30-year-old mother of three, who, despite her initial reluctance ...
The Church of Sinai owes its existence to the Monastery of the Transfiguration (better known as St. Catherine's Monastery). The monastery's origins are traced back to the Chapel of the Burning Bush that Constantine the Great's mother, Helena, had built over the site where Moses is supposed to have seen the burning bush.
Furthermore, the location of St. Catherine's in the rocky desert of Sinai, far away from any major trade or military route, kept the religious art housed within the monastery away from raiders as well as conquering armies. [20] Today, the monastery boasts a remarkable collection of over 2,000 icons, dating from the sixth century to modern times ...
The work of art is part of the collection of Saint Catherine's Monastery. Church domes became a common site of Pantocrator images in the Greek and Italian world. The specific version painted by Ieremias was a common theme used by painters during the Proto-Renaissance. Luca di Tommè and Andreas Pavias both created similar versions. Palladas ...
Vethiy Denmi (Icons from Saint Catherine's Monastery) The Chapel of Saint Catherine is on the summit of Mount Catherine, the mountain where the body of the saint from Alexandria was placed by angels, according to Christian beliefs. The saint, born Dorothea in 294 AD, was educated in pagan schools but converted to Christianity, for which she was ...
Monastery of Saint Ursula in Aarau (1270-1528) Dominican Nunnery in Basel (1274-1557), now Museum Kleines Klingental Oetenbach nunnery in Zürich (1286-1525) Dominikanerkloster St. Nicolai in Chur (1288-1539) Monastère des dominicaines d'Estavayer in Estavayer-le-Lac (since 1316) Monastery of Saint Catherine in St. Gallen (1368-1594)
Saint Catherine is a tempera painting created by Ieremias Palladas. Palladas was a Greek painter from Crete. He was a Sinaitic monk. He was associated with Saint Catherine's sacred monastery in Egypt also known as Mount Sinai. The monastery is at the location where Mosses received his tablets.