Mount Sinai is revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims as the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments and according to belief in the valley below there, God spoke from a burning bush. Nestled in the shadow of the ± a mountain, lies the Monastery of Santa Catalina (Deir Sant Katreen) where he has lived a community of monks almost continuously since it was founded in the century there was a chapel VI.Aqui before construcià ³ n of the Monastery, built by Empress Helena in the fourth century, the place where the tradition says that Moses saw n the burning bush. soon became a place of pilgrimage and, in the sixth century, Emperor Justinian ± adio year a fortified monastery to protect the monks of the outlaws and asaltantes. The convent dedicated to Santa Catalina more
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