Egypt and Greece clash over St. Catherine's – home to Moses's Well, world's oldest library. ( photo credit : Sun_Shine. Via Shutterstock ) By JERUSALEM POST STAFF JUNE 4, 2025 09:33 ...

St. Catherine’s Monastery is located on Mount Sinai in Egypt and it currently houses the oldest continually operating library in the world, containing ancient and medieval manuscripts second ...

Also, approximately 3,330 ancient manuscripts remain in the library of St. Catherine's Monastery. The manuscripts are written in 12 different languages including Arabic, Greek, Syrian and Coptic.

Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian court ruled last week that it sat on state-owned land.Dating back to the ...

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Pope Pius IX named St. Catherine a co-patroness of Rome in April 1866. Pope Pius XII named Catherine a co-patron saint of Italy in 1939, along with St. Francis of Assisi.

Egypt and Greece clash over St. Catherine's – home to Moses's Well, world's oldest library. (credit: Dimos. Via Shutterstock) Al-Monitor reported that construction began in March 2021 for the Great ...

Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian court ruled last week that it sat on state-owned land.