{"id":44,"date":"2016-01-21T20:55:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T20:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desert.mamuta.org\/?p=44"},"modified":"2016-07-24T13:32:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T13:32:32","slug":"hike-from-mar-saba-monastery-to-tal-al-qamar-in-hike-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bawadi.org\/index.php\/2016\/01\/21\/hike-from-mar-saba-monastery-to-tal-al-qamar-in-hike-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Hike from Mar Saba monastery to Tal Al Qamar in Hike Palestine."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>he\u00a0<b>Holy Lavra of Saint\u00a0Sabbas the Sanctified<\/b>,<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\">[1]<\/sup>\u00a0known in Arabic as\u00a0<b>Mar Saba<\/b>\u00a0(Arabic:\u00a0<span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ar\" xml:lang=\"ar\">\u062f\u064a\u0631 \u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0633\u0627\u0628\u0627<\/span>\u200e\u200e;\u00a0Hebrew:\u00a0<span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"he\" xml:lang=\"he\">\u05de\u05e0\u05d6\u05e8 \u05de\u05e8 \u05e1\u05d1\u05d0<\/span>\u200e\u200e;\u00a0Greek:\u00a0<span lang=\"el\" xml:lang=\"el\">\u1f39\u03b5\u03c1\u1f70 \u039b\u03b1\u03cd\u03c1\u03b1 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u1f49\u03c3\u03af\u03bf\u03c5 \u03a3\u03ac\u03b2\u03b2\u03b1 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u1f29\u03b3\u03b9\u03b1\u03c3\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5<\/span>), is a\u00a0Greek Orthodox\u00a0monastery\u00a0overlooking the\u00a0Kidron Valley, the valley on the eastern side of the\u00a0Old City of Jerusalem.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\">[2]<\/sup>\u00a0The traditional date for the founding of the monastery by Sabbas the Sanctified of Mutalaska,\u00a0Cappadocia\u00a0is the year 483<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\">[3]<\/sup>\u00a0and today houses around 20\u00a0monks. It is considered to be one of the oldest inhabited monasteries in the world, and still maintains many of its ancient traditions. One in particular is the restriction on\u00a0women\u00a0entering the main compound. The only building that women can enter is the Women&#8217;s Tower, near the main entrance.<\/p>\n<p>The monastery holds the\u00a0relics\u00a0of Saint Sabbas. Mar Saba is occasionally referred to as the\u00a0Convent\u00a0or\u00a0Monastery\u00a0of Santa Sabba.<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\">[4]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Mar Saba was also the home of\u00a0St. John of Damascus\u00a0(676 &#8211; 749), a key religious figure in the\u00a0Iconoclastic Controversy, who around 726 wrote letters to the Byzantine emperor\u00a0Leo III the Isaurian\u00a0refuting his edicts prohibiting the veneration of\u00a0icons\u00a0(images of Christ or other Christian religious figures). John worked as a high financial officer to the Muslim\u00a0Caliph\u00a0Abd al-Malik; he eventually felt a higher calling and migrated to the\u00a0Judaean desert, where he was\u00a0tonsured\u00a0a monk and was\u00a0ordained\u00a0a\u00a0hieromonk\u00a0(monastic priest) at the Monastery of Mar Saba. St. John&#8217;s tomb lies in a cave under the monastery.<\/p>\n<p>The monastery is important in the historical development of the\u00a0liturgy\u00a0of the\u00a0Orthodox Church\u00a0in that the monastic\u00a0Typicon\u00a0(manner of celebrating worship services) of Saint Sabbas became the standard throughout the\u00a0Eastern Orthodox Church\u00a0and those\u00a0Eastern Catholic Churches\u00a0which follow the\u00a0Byzantine Rite. The Typicon took the standard form of services which were celebrated in the\u00a0Patriarchate of Jerusalem\u00a0and added some specifically monastic usages which were local traditions at Saint Sabbas. From there it spread to\u00a0Constantinople, and thence throughout the\u00a0Byzantine\u00a0world. Although this Typicon has undergone further evolution, particularly at the Monastery of the\u00a0Stoudion\u00a0in Constantinople, it is still referred to as the\u00a0<i>Typicon of Saint Sabas<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Mar Saba is where\u00a0Morton Smith\u00a0found a copy of\u00a0a letter\u00a0ascribed to\u00a0Clement of Alexandria\u00a0containing excerpts of a so-called\u00a0<i>Secret Gospel of Mark<\/i>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-5\" class=\"reference\">[5]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Sambas&#8217; relics were taken by\u00a0Crusaders\u00a0in the 12th century and remained in\u00a0Italy\u00a0until\u00a0Pope Paul VI\u00a0returned them to the monastery in 1965 as a gesture of good will towards the\u00a0Orthodox.<\/p>\n<p>from Wikipedia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he\u00a0Holy Lavra of Saint\u00a0Sabbas the Sanctified,[1]\u00a0known in Arabic as\u00a0Mar Saba\u00a0(Arabic:\u00a0\u062f\u064a\u0631 \u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0633\u0627\u0628\u0627\u200e\u200e;\u00a0Hebrew:\u00a0\u05de\u05e0\u05d6\u05e8 \u05de\u05e8 \u05e1\u05d1\u05d0\u200e\u200e;\u00a0Greek:\u00a0\u1f39\u03b5\u03c1\u1f70 \u039b\u03b1\u03cd\u03c1\u03b1 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u1f49\u03c3\u03af\u03bf\u03c5 \u03a3\u03ac\u03b2\u03b2\u03b1 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u1f29\u03b3\u03b9\u03b1\u03c3\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5), is a\u00a0Greek Orthodox\u00a0monastery\u00a0overlooking the\u00a0Kidron Valley, the valley on the eastern side of the\u00a0Old City of Jerusalem.[2]\u00a0The traditional date for the founding of the monastery by Sabbas the Sanctified of Mutalaska,\u00a0Cappadocia\u00a0is the year 483[3]\u00a0and today houses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/bawadi.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/10846066_573998539410806_7719561859765437976_n.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7K4gr-I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bawadi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bawadi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bawadi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bawadi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bawadi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bawadi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/bawadi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bawadi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bawadi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bawadi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bawadi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}