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Father Justin Sinaites- "'We Knew Not Whether We Were in Heaven or on Earth': The Heritage of Russian Iconography"

Date:
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Location:
Wallace Briggs Theater, Fine Arts Building

The Cottrill-Rolfes Chair of Catholic Studies will be sponsoring two lectures in early November.  The speaker will be Fr. Justin Sinates, a monk of St. Catherine's monastery in the Sinai Desert, Egypt, and a native of Texas.  St. Catherine's was founded in the sixth century by the Byzantine emperor Justinian and is the oldest Christian monastery in continual existence in the world.  St.Catherine's has a extensive collection of ancient manuscripts , surpassed only by the Vatican.  Fr. Justin has spearheaded an innovative effort to digitize all of the manuscripts in the library's collection, beginning with the famous Codex Sinaiticus.  Saint Catherine's also has a unique collection of Greek and Russian icons, which owe their existence to the monastery's isolated location and distance from the problem of Iconoclasm.

Here are some links to articles written about Fr. Justin and his work:

http://justinmartyr.blogspot.com/2009/02/father-justin-sinaites.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/04/technology/at-a-mountain-monastery-ol…

http://articles.latimes.com/print/2007/feb/20/local/me-gettymonk20

http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2005/edition_05-15-2005/feature…