For believers, this Christ Pantocrator ("ruler of all") icon is the most famous image of Jesus in the world, because the remote Sinai Peninsula location of St. Catherine's Monastery allowed it to ...

For believers, this Christ Pantocrator (“ruler of all”) icon is the most famous image of Jesus in the world, because the remote Sinai Peninsula location of St. Catherine’s Monastery allowed ...

For modern skeptics, the sixth-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in beeswax and colored pigments.

Sinai icon image shown by permission of Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, Egypt. ... The angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she would conceive a boy named Jesus (Luke 1:31).

For modern skeptics, the 6th-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in beeswax and colored pigments.

For believers, this Christ Pantocrator (”ruler of all”) icon is the most famous image of Jesus in the world, because the remote Sinai Peninsula location of St. Catherine’s Monastery allowed ...

For modern skeptics, the sixth-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in beeswax and colored pigments. For believers ...