Similar to the desert, the peninsula contains mountains in its southern sector that are a geological extension of the Red Sea Hills, the low range along the Red Sea coast that includes Mount Catherine ( Jabal Katrinah ), the country's highest point, at 2, 642 m above sea-level.

Mount St. Catherine is the highest peak at 840 meters.

The lowest point is at sea level, and the highest is on Mount Saint Catherine.

* Construction on the monastery of St. Catherine is begun on Mount Sinai.

A virgin of royal descent, she is tortured on a spiked wheel ( later called " Catherine Wheel ") and beheaded ; her remains are spirited to Mount Sinai.

Mount Sinai is a high mountain near Saint Catherine in the Sinai region.

It is next to Mount St. Catherine ( at, the highest peak in Egypt ).

However, the earliest Christian traditions place this event at the nearby Mount Serbal, at the foot of which a monastery was founded in the 4th century ; it was only in the 6th century that the monastery moved to the foot of Mount Catherine, following the guidance of Josephus's earlier claim that Sinai was the highest mountain in the area.

Jebel Musa, which is adjacent to Mount Catherine, was equated with Sinai, by Christians, only after the 15th century.

( Greek: ) lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of an inaccessible gorge at the foot of modern Mount Sinai in St. Catherine city in Egypt at an elevation of 1550 meters.

However, the monastery at Mount Sinai was the best-known site of Catherine pilgrimage, but was also the most difficult to reach.

Ring of St. Catherine, given to pilgrims visiting Mount Sinai.

Attractions include the Anthony Lakes ( and its ski area ), Minam River, Mount Emily, Blue Mountains, Umatilla National Forest, Wallowa – Whitman National Forest ( including Eagle Cap Wilderness ), Catherine Creek State Park, Hilgard Junction State Recreation Area, Thief Valley Reservoir, Cove Hot Springs Pool, the Hot Lake Hotel ( first built in the 1860s due to nearby hot springs ), and the Eagle Cap Excursion Train.

Hagios Demetrios in Thessaloniki, St Catherine Monastery on Mount Sinai, Jvari Monastery in present-day Georgia, and three Armenian churches of Echmiadzin all date primarily from the 7th century and provide a glimpse on architectural developments in the Byzantine provinces following the age of Justinian.

Once he masqueraded as a Prince of Absdam, Cyprus and Aragon and pretended to hoist a title of Princess of the order of St Catherine of Mount Sinai to actress Lavinia Queen.

Saint Catherine's Monastery ( Greek: Monì tìs Agìas Ekaterìnis ), in Arabic دير القد ّ يسة 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.

* Official Website of the Holy Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai

However, in the 4th century, under the Byzantine Empire, the monastery built there was abandoned in favour of the newer belief that Mount Saint Catherine was the Biblical Mount Sinai ; a new monastery-St. Catherine's Monastery was built at its foot, and the alleged site of the biblical burning bush was identified.

" The monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai and the Christian communities of the Caliphate.

Catherine O ' Leary died on July 3, 1895 of acute pneumonia at her home at 5133 Halsted Street and was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery.

Of great importance to the development of monasticism is the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai.

Previously he was a parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Poughkeepsie, 1980 – 1982 ; St. Stanislaus, Pleasant Valley, 1979 – 1980 ; St. Catherine Laboure, Lake Katrine, 1973 – 1979 and 1965 – 1967 ; St. Joseph ’ s, Kingston, 1967 – 1973 ; St. Gregory Barbarigo, Garnerville, 1967 ; and St. John the Evangelist, White Plains, 1962 – 1965.

When the revelation was given to Moses at Mount Sinai, he headed the elders of Israel who accompanied Moses on the way to the summit.

According to the Book of Exodus, the Ark was built at the command of God, in accordance with the instructions given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

According to the Book of Exodus, God instructed Moses on Mount Sinai during his 40-day stay upon the mountain within the thick cloud and darkness where God was ( Ex.

In 2003, author Graham Phillips hypothetically concluded that the Ark was taken to Mount Sinai in the Valley of Edom by the Maccabees.

Thus, " Armageddon " would mean " Mountain of Assembly ," which Jordan says is " a reference to the assembly at Mount Sinai, and to its replacement, Mount Zion.

* Joshua served as the mediator of the renewed covenant between Yahweh and Israel at Shechem ( 8: 30 – 35 ; 24 ), just as Moses was the mediator of Yahweh's covenant with the people at Mount Sinai / Mount Horeb.

Numbers begins at Mount Sinai, where the Israelites have received their laws and covenant from God and God has taken up residence among them in the sanctuary.

Most commentators structure Numbers in three sections based on locale ( Mount Sinai, Kadesh-Barnea and the plains of Moab ), linked by two travel sections.

The next is between God and Abraham, and the third between God and all Israel at Mount Sinai.

In 1844, he paid his first visit to the convent of Saint Catherine's Monastery, on Mount Sinai, where he found, in a trash basket, forty-four pages of what was the then oldest known copy of the Septuagint.

Many Conservative Jews reject the traditional Jewish idea that God literally dictated the words of the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai in a verbal revelation, but they hold the traditional Jewish belief that God inspired the later prophets to write the rest of the Tanakh.

As examples of this theme, Stookey includes the revelation of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, Christ's ascent of a mountain to deliver his Sermon on the Mount, and Christ's ascension into Heaven from the Mount of Olives.

His famous Sermon on the Mount is considered by some Christian scholars to be the proclamation of the New Covenant ethics, in contrast to the Mosaic Covenant of Moses from Mount Sinai.

Led by their prophet Moses they journey through the wilderness to Mount Sinai, where Yahweh promises them the land of Canaan ( the " Promised Land ") in return for their faithfulness.

* Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai

* Laws believed revealed by God to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai ( e. g. the written Pentateuch and elucidations therefrom, Halacha l ' Moshe miSinai );

The rabbis, who made many additions and interpretations of Jewish Law, did so only in accordance with regulations they believe were given for this purpose to Moses on Mount Sinai, see Deuteronomy 17: 11.

Although Orthodox Judaism acknowledges that rabbis made many decisions and decrees regarding Jewish Law where the written Torah itself is non-specific, they did so only in accordance with regulations given to them by Moses on Mount Sinai ( see Deuteronomy 5: 8-13 ).

For example, research done at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine studied two patient groups facing breast cancer surgery.