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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.
In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, it was decided to leave the celebration of the feast of St Peter of Verona to local calendars, because he was not as well known worldwide, and Saint Catherine's feast was restored to its traditional date of April 29.
The oldest icon of Christ Pantocrator, Encaustic painting | encaustic on panel, c. 6th century ( Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai ).
St Peter Encaustic painting | encaustic on panel, c. 6th century ( Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai ).
If Daniel's Vita is trustworthy ( and there is nothing against which to judge its accuracy ), then John came to the Vatos Monastery at Mount Sinai, now Saint Catherine's Monastery, and became a novice when he was about 16 years old.
The most important of them were the ones in the monasteries of Mount Athos for Orthodox Christians, and the library of the Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai for the Coptic Church.
* Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai was founded between 527 and 565 in the Sinai desert by order of Emperor Justinian I.
* The Codex Sinaiticus is found by Constantin von Tischendorf on his third visit to Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai.
It is now kept at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai, Egypt.
* c. 549 – 564 – Transfiguration of Christ, mosaic in the apse, Church of the Virgin, Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai, Egypt, is made.
Icon depicting The Ladder of Divine Ascent ( 12th century, Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai ).
A 6th-century encaustic icon from Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai.
* Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai, Egypt
Saint Catherine's Castle ( Castillo de Santa Catalina ) sits on the top of a hill overlooking the city.
Icon of Abgar holding the mandylion, the image of Christ ( encaustic painting | encaustic, 10th century, Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai ).
According to a Christian tradition dating to about 800, angels carried her body to Mount Sinai, where, in the 6th century, the Eastern Emperor Justinian had established what is now known as Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai, ( in fact dedicated to the Transfiguration of Christ ).
Saint Catherine's Monastery survives, a famous repository of early Christian art, architecture and illuminated manuscripts that remains open to tourists and visiting scholars.
The earliest surviving account of St. Catherine's life comes over 500 years after the traditional date of her martyrdom, in the monologium attributed to Emperor Basil I ( 866 ), although the rediscovery of her relics at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai was about 800, and presumably implies an existing cult at that date ( the common name of the monastery developed after the discovery ).
With the relative ease of travel in the modern age, pilgrimages to Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai have increased.
Icon of the enthroned Virgin and Child with saints and angels, and the Hand of God ( art ) | Hand of God above, 6th century, Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai, perhaps the earliest iconic image of the subject to survive.
By the next century the iconic depiction of the Virgin enthroned carrying the infant Christ was established, as in the example from the only group of icons surviving from this period, at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai.
The majority of schools are co-ed, with the exception of three, all on the Northside: Saint John's College ( boys ), Saint Catherine's Academy ( girls ) and Pallotti High School ( girls ).

Saint and Monastery
* Monastery of Agios Nectarios, dedicated to Saint Nectarios, a recent saint of the Greek Orthodox Church.
* Monastery of Saint Anthony, Egypt
* Monastery of Saint Anthony
* Monastery of Saint Fana
* Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great
* Monastery of Saint Matthew the Potter
* Monastery of Saint Mina
* Monastery of Saint Paul the Anchorite
* Monastery of Saint Pishoy
File: St. Anthony's Monastery 2006. jpg | Monastery of Saint Anthony, Eastern Desert, Egypt
File: MonasteroAntonio2. jpg | Monastery of Saint Anthony, Eastern Desert, Egypt
File: MonasteroPaolo4. jpg | Monastery of Saint Paul the Anchorite, Eastern Desert, Egypt
File: Bischoy Kloster BW 10. jpg | Monastery of Saint Pishoy, Scetes, Egypt
File: Bischoy Kloster BW 1. jpg | Monastery of Saint Pishoy, Scetes, Egypt
File: Bischoy Kloster BW 9. jpg | Monastery of Saint Pishoy, Scetes, Egypt
File: St marcarius. JPG | Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great, Scetes, Egypt
File: Macarius Kloster BW 1. jpg | Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great, Scetes, Egypt
File: Monastery of Abu Mena ( 03-2009 ). jpg | Monastery of Saint Mina, Western Desert, Egypt
File: Kroeffelbach Koptisches Kloster. jpg | Monastery of Saint Anthony, Kröffelbach, Germany
Fresco by Dionisius representing Saint Nicholas in a Ferapontov Monastery.
Fresco in the Church of the Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian in Syria

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