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Showing posts with label Orthodoxy in Sinai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orthodoxy in Sinai. Show all posts
May 13, 2022

Saint Polybios, Bishop of Rhinocorura (the disciple and biographer of Saint Epiphanios of Salamis)

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    Saint Polybios probably came from Phoenicia (Lebanon). Information about his life comes from the Life of Saint Epiphanios of Salamis (Co...
April 30, 2022

Venerable Stephen the Chorebite, Whose Incorrupt Relics Rest in the Ossuary of Saint Katherine's Monastery of Mount Sinai

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The Ossuary of the Monastery of Saint Katherine, at the foot of Mount Sinai, occupies the ground floor beneath the Chapel of Saint Tryphon. ...
December 10, 2021

The Elements of Foolishness for Christ in the Sinaite Monk Fr. Ioannis Aleiferis

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 By John Fourtounas, Professor of the University of Cairo On November 29th, 40 days have passed since the death of Fr. Ioannis Aleiferis, a ...
November 5, 2021

Saint Paisios and the Hermitage of Saints Galakteon and Episteme at Sinai

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The mountain to the north of the Monastery of Saint Katherine at Sinai is called Mount Episteme, which derives its name from Saints Galakteo...
October 26, 2021

Fr. Ioannis Aleiferis, a Holy Monk of Mount Sinai Known as a Fool for Christ, Has Reposed

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 By Ioannis Fourtounas Fr. Ioannis Aleiferis (+ 10/19/2021), who after a brief illness departed for the heavenly dwelling place, was a Sinai...
September 4, 2021

The Chapel of the Burning Bush at Mount Sinai

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The Chapel of the Burning Bush is the most ancient shrine in the Monastery of Saint Katherine at the base of Mount Sinai, and it was around ...
January 15, 2021

Pilgrimage to the Holy Peak of Mount Sinai

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  At 2400 meters and after a three hour walk and an ascent of 750 stairs from the Monastery of Saint Katherine, a pilgrim arrives at the Hol...
March 11, 2020

Saint George the Arselaites of Sinai

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St. George Arselaites (Feast Day - March 11) Verses How did you swiftly make such a long journey? If you weren't fleshless, then w...
November 25, 2019

The Discovery of the Relics of Saint Katherine at Sinai

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By John Sanidopoulos In the account of the Life and Passion of Saint Katherine of Alexandria from the tenth century written by St. Symeon ...
October 3, 2019

Dionysius the Areopagite and the Apse Mosaic of the Transfiguration in Sinai

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By Hieromonk Alexander (Golitzin) Let me conclude this essay by turning to an artifact constructed within two or three decades of the firs...
April 7, 2019

Eldress Mary Magdalene (Marie Madeleine Le Beller), Hermitess of Sinai (+ 2013)

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The most-venerable Eldress Mary Magdalene, known in the world as Marie Madeleine Le Beller, was from Paris and went to the Holy Land on a p...
May 1, 2017

Commemoration of the Dreadful Earthquake at the Sinai Monastery on May 1, 1212

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Monastery of Saint Katherine, Sinai On May 1, 1212 a damaging earthquake took place in south Palestine that also affected Egypt, where i...
April 21, 2017

Narrations Concerning the Holy Fathers in Sinai (St. Anastasios of Sinai)

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By St. Anastasios of Sinai 1. Ten years ago a certain two of the fathers of Holy Mount Sinai went up to worship on the Holy Summit. One of...
March 30, 2017

Is the Burning Bush Still Burning?

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Ascent to Holy Mount Sinai After the passage of fifteen centuries, does the Sinai brotherhood still feel the presence of Saint John Klim...
January 26, 2017

Saint Paisios the Athonite at Saint Katherine Monastery in Sinai (Documentary)

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November 25, 2015

Bride of Christ, Saint Catherine of Alexandria

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Saint Catherine is depicted with the symbols of her wisdom and martyrdom in this icon of the 17th century Cretan school on the imposing ic...
October 29, 2015

The Ladder of Heavenly Unity

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http://www.mountsinaimonastery.org/donate/ St. Catherine’s Greek Orthodox Monastery, located in the shadow of Mt. Sinai and the oldest con...
November 24, 2014

A Synoptic View of the Orthodox Ascetical Tradition of Mount Sinai

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By Archimandrite Isaias Simonopetritis As we approach the beginning of the third Millenium of the Christian era, we would do well to orien...
September 3, 2013

The Consecration of the First Church Dedicated to the Prophet Moses in Greece

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According to Romfea.gr , on Wednesday 4 September 2013, which is the day we commemorate the Holy Prophet Moses, the first church in Greece ...
March 31, 2012

Where St. John Climacus Lived in Asceticism (photos)

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According to tradition, the place where St. John Climacus lived in asceticism was in a desert cave located in Wadi Et-Tlah of Sinai, approx...