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Sinai Fly-By

Nice piece in the LA Times on the efforts of monks at St. Catherine’s to preserve their ancient heritage.

the oldest continuously operating monastery in Christendom … St. Catherine’s is entering the Age of Technology — with the help of Father Justin Sinaites, a 57-year-old American monk from El Paso, and Hemeid, the 23-year-old son of a Bedouin camel driver. They are implementing a digital photography project that will make high-resolution images of the library’s closely guarded manuscripts available to scholars all over the world.

Consisting of 3,300 manuscripts in 11 languages — many of them richly illuminated in gold leaf and bright, jewel-like colors — the library’s collection is second in number and importance only to the trove at the Vatican. With manuscripts made as early as the 6th century, the Sinai cache consists mainly of scriptures, sermons and texts for religious services, but it includes classical Greek literature and a few medical texts with herbal remedies for various afflictions.

Read more.

Or read a book (with color pictures): St. Catherine of Sinai and the Monastery Named After Her.

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  1. Hash…

    CurrentChristian.com linked to this, but since it was always my intention to do so myself, I will still point to it. Todd Mitchell had a good sermon on the importance of training children.
    The LA Times had a story about the Holy Monastery of St. Cathe…

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