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The 1871 bell tower in the last sunlight of the day.

The marble medallion is inscribed, Ἐπὶ Γρηγορίου Σκευοφύλακος τοῦ Ζακυνθίου Νοεμβρίου 24, 1871. “By Gregory Skevophylax from Zakynthos November 24, 1871.” The bell tower was dedicated the day before the feast of Saint Catherine. The medallion is carved with a depiction of […]

In the high mountains above the monastery, the first sign of a new day is a band of rose coloured light on the horizon. This was the time when the Myrrh-bearing women went to the Tomb, ‘as it began to dawn’, when the restrictions of the Sabbath were now at an end. They found […]

The Chapel of the Burning Bush, the easternmost chapel of the Sinai basilica.

Ὅτι δὲ ἐγείρονται οἱ νεκροὶ καὶ Μωϋσῆς ἐμήνυσεν ἐπὶ τῆς βάτου ὡς λέγει Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν Ἀβραὰμ καὶ τὸν Θεὸν Ἰσαὰκ καὶ τόν Θεὸν Ἰακώβ· Θεὸς δὲ οὐκ ἔστιν νεκρῶν ἀλλὰ ζώντων· πάντες γὰρ αὐτῷ ζῶσιν.

Now that the dead […]