Promises the date of the monastery of St. Catherine to the beginning of the fourth century by a Roman emperor Constantine officially recognize the Christian religion and to Christianity. Then shot to renown Christian Samarra Catherine of Alexandria name known by its ability to refer the infidels to the Christian religion. Alexandria authorities tried to persuade her to abandon its noble mission, but I refused, and was sentenced to death. But her body - as Qil- disappeared after her death appeared on Mount Sinai. It was said also that the angels are the ones who took him out there on the wings. Developed by the Christian Church in the status of saints and established a monastery on Mount Sinai in honor of her memory. Since then it became Christians of the whole Christian world are doing a pilgrimage to the Monastery of Santa. But the climb to the mountain, which is higher than Mount Moses, with 400 meters was fraught with dangers. So witnessed the tenth century the remains of St. landing to a Christian church located near the pit where it was constructed Monastery of Santa.
It attributes the Russian Scriptures first pilgrimage undertaken by the Russians to the monastery of Sinai to Ogrevia monk who visited the monastery in 1370. The pilgrimage to the holy places in Palestine and Sinai from Russia at that time a real feat, and it takes years. And we left a lot of pilgrims in the desert without a return to the homeland. The deacon Zosima Trinity Cathedral and St. Sergei outskirts of Moscow in 1419 pilgrimage to the Sinai. He was able to return to Russia, where he published a book called the title "traveler" wrote the Russian travelers Alisiev in his book "The Road to Sinai" in 1881 that he met with Russian peasants dressed in traditional Russian costumes their shirts and red Dzmathm skin on the Red Sea shore. He said that the Russians Alisiev pilgrims advantage is the simplicity of faith in God, their potential and personal indifference to the difficulties and obstacles, which impressed the Egyptians so much, so it had not been subjected to attacks Oounab in most cases.
Russian tsars announced themselves after the collapse of the Byzantine Empire in the fifth century AD main sponsors of the Orthodox Christian religion. The transformation of the monastery of St. Catherine in Sinai to their care for, even Russia announced in 1689 a formal sponsorship of the monastery because that Katrina is one of the Saints most worship in Rossia.alma that the Order of St. Catherine was the highest honor imitate women Russians in 1917. Before and in honor of this event was manufacturing special coffin for the remains of Saint Catherine holds it until now in the altar of the Orthodox Church in Deir Alsinae.
It was believed until not long ago that one of the icons of St. quill painter Andrei Rublev kept in the Monastery of Saint Catherine. It turned out in the late twentieth century, the oldest icon kept in its time the monastery dates back to the sixteenth century only, knowing that the painter of St. Andrei Rublev was living at the end of the fourteenth century and the beginning of the fifteenth century. But Sinai monastery was before the mid-nineteenth century possessed a very rare masterpiece comparable to the Vatican antiques, a manuscript of the Old and New Testaments in Greek, who are too old history dates back to the fourth century AD, which was found in the monastery of St. Catherine. The monks were handed the manuscript to Russia to study the condition that later returned to the monastery. But he did not write the manuscript back to its original location, because Russia does not want to diet Musyaadtha to the monastery. And it began talks with the patron of the monastery resulted in the signing Dedicate manuscript dubbed the Charter of the Sinai for the Russia agreement. Russian Emperor Alexander II issued a decree in 1869 granting the monastery to meet the amount of $ 9 thousand Russian rubles. The money spent to set up the bells in the tower of the monastery. But Russia is no longer owns this manuscript because the Soviet government sold it in 1933 to the British Museum in exchange for 100,000 pounds.
It is worth mentioning that the monastery was able to retain besides those sacred manuscript large number of rare books and manuscripts and very value, including ancient manuscripts in Russian dating back to the sixteenth and seventeenth and excerpts of Christian manuscripts in ancient Georgian dating back to the ninth and tenth centuries.
Finally, the Monastery of St. Catherine is famous for fishmeal Moses, which is reminiscent of the Old Testament and which grows here within its walls near Mount Sinai. And a bush of Moses attract pilgrims from around the whole of the Christian world who come to the monastery to worship
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