Excursion to St Katharina Monastery
Yuri Pautov
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1 The Bell Tower houses 9 bells of different sizes and an ancient wooden bell. The wooden bell is used daily, the metal bells are only heard on Sundays and on holidays.
The legend tells, that the virgin Catherine died a martyr death in the 4th century. It is said, that she was the daughter of a noble family from Alexandria. Beautiful and sophisticated in philosophy, poetry, mathematics and languages she tried to convert Emperor Maximanus. She astonished him with her knowledge, her rhetoric and logic. She succeeded to convert many of those in his closest circle. He sentenced her to death. Catherine was attached to four wooden wheel rotating into opposite directions. Like a miracle she survived, and finally Maximanus decreed that she should be beheaded.
The church of St. Catherine in Alexandria is said to be the place of her martyrdom.
Five centuries later a monk had the vision of angels carrying the celestial body of St. Catherine upon the highest mountain. On top of this mountain, which later was named Mount Catherine, monks found the intact body of St. Catherine emanating sweet smelling myrrh.
Today the skull and her left hand remained in the Church of Transfiguration. Every year on Nov 25th the monks celebrate the anniversary of her martyrdom, and her relics are carried in a great procession around the Church.
2. A worker - he gathers the stones around and then sell them to tourists...
3. Inside the Monastery - a lot of tourists
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6 The fact of being so close to the historical places (Burning Bush, the foot of the mountain where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments) makes tourists thoughtful...
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Spasibo,
Yuri
1 The Bell Tower houses 9 bells of different sizes and an ancient wooden bell. The wooden bell is used daily, the metal bells are only heard on Sundays and on holidays.
The legend tells, that the virgin Catherine died a martyr death in the 4th century. It is said, that she was the daughter of a noble family from Alexandria. Beautiful and sophisticated in philosophy, poetry, mathematics and languages she tried to convert Emperor Maximanus. She astonished him with her knowledge, her rhetoric and logic. She succeeded to convert many of those in his closest circle. He sentenced her to death. Catherine was attached to four wooden wheel rotating into opposite directions. Like a miracle she survived, and finally Maximanus decreed that she should be beheaded.
The church of St. Catherine in Alexandria is said to be the place of her martyrdom.
Five centuries later a monk had the vision of angels carrying the celestial body of St. Catherine upon the highest mountain. On top of this mountain, which later was named Mount Catherine, monks found the intact body of St. Catherine emanating sweet smelling myrrh.
Today the skull and her left hand remained in the Church of Transfiguration. Every year on Nov 25th the monks celebrate the anniversary of her martyrdom, and her relics are carried in a great procession around the Church.
2. A worker - he gathers the stones around and then sell them to tourists...
3. Inside the Monastery - a lot of tourists
4.
5
6 The fact of being so close to the historical places (Burning Bush, the foot of the mountain where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments) makes tourists thoughtful...
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Spasibo,
Yuri
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