DAY 38 Up this morning to head to St Catherine's Monastery at the foot of the valley to Mount Sinai. St Catherine's Monastery was constructed between 527 and 565 AD. It was built around what was thought to be Moses' Burning Bush which has a chapel built atop of it. It has priceless works of art, including Arab mosaics, Greek and Russian icons, western oil paintings , fine sacerdotal ornaments, . It also has one of the largest and most important collections of illuminated manuscripts in the world (the Vatican has the largest). The collection has consists of some 4 500 volumes in Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Slavic, Syriac, Georgian and other languages.. St Catherine's has been called the oldest working Christian Monastery and the smallest diocese in the world. St Catherine, whose body was
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