The Transfiguration.

"and a voice came out of the cloud,
"This is my beloved Son;
listen to him." "

Mark 9.7.

The story: Mark.9.2-13.
Lo He Comes with Clouds Descending.mp3. LISTEN to the advent hymn 'Lo, He comes with clouds descending.' Music details HERE.

Monastery of St Catherine: Apse. 'The Transfiguration' (103kb).

Mosaic. Byzantine, c.540.
Apse of the Church of the Virgin, Monastery of St Catherine, Mount Sinai.
Image - "The Early Christian & Byzantine World", by Jean Lassus. Paul Hamlyn, 1966.
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