This Saturday (22 October) is the feast day of St John Paul the Great (Pope John Paul II)!
Mass celebrating the feast of the Immaculate Conception yesterday at the North American College in #Rome. A large mosaic of the Blessed Mother by Count Galeazzi dominates the chapel. #Mary #Catholic #pray #seminarians #faith
“Young people of every continent, do not be afraid to be the saints of the new millennium!” – Saint John Paul the Great.
“Life, even with Jesus, is hard. And life, especially with Jesus, is unfathomably beautiful.”Angela Nazworth
St. Catherine’s Monastery, almost 1,500 years old, stands at the base of Mount Sinai on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Built between 527 and 561 on the orders of Emperor Justinian.
Travel trivia: St. Catherine’s is one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited Christian monasteries.
Photograph by Fernando Moleres, Panos Pictures
Via http://natgeotravel.tumblr.com/post/103073834891/st-catherines-monastery-egypt-picture