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The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt
Photo: Bruce White
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One of our earliest accounts of Christian visitors to Sinai
dates from the late fourth century and comes from a Christian
woman from Spain named Egeria. Egeria undertook a pilgrimage
to the Holy Land, via the Byzantine capital of Constantinople.
On her journey she visited sites associated with the life and
death of Christ, as well as Old Testament sites and the many
monastic communities that had sprung up in the deserts of Judea
and Sinai. Sacred locales associated with Moses were among the
most popular Old Testament destinations on the circuit of Holy
Land pilgrimage.
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