The bell tower and minaret at sunrise after a light snow had fallen through the night.
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Snow clouds over the foothills of Sinai bring a light dusting of snow. The granite peaks to the north of the monastery are wreathed in cloud. A detail of Joseph’s dream, from a twelfth century icon of the Nativity. Now the angel having thus appeared, talks not with Mary, but with Joseph; and what says he? ‘Arise, and take the young Child and His mother.’ Here, he says not any more, ‘your wife’, but ‘His mother’. For after that the […] The mid-morning sun creates a shadow of the trapeza bell on the wall of the storeroom. |
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