Knightly Order of St. Catherine with Mount Sinai

The Dynastic Knightly Order of the

Royal de Lusignan family.

The dynastic knightly order of the de Lusignan family has existed since the 12th century.

The Knights of this Order performed the duties prescribed to them to protect the roads and ensure the safety of pilgrims traveling to Mount Sinai, where the coffin containing the ashes of St. Catherine the Great Martyr lies.

King Leon VI Lusignan introduced the Order into his dynastic Fons Honorum, which after his death passed to the Cyprus royal house de Lusignan and to their further descendants.

The Knightly Order is currently engaged in the restoration of old Christian churches and temples in Africa and the Middle East, as well as into charity work.

The Order was awarded in the XIX-XXI centuries to members of royal families, and many other political, noble, military figures, for merits "in the field of humanitarian work on behalf of the house of Lusignan."

We invite to cooperation those who are interested and consider themselves a worthy candidate in the Knights of the Order.

The Knight's Order of St. Catherine with Mount Sinai was named after this historical and spiritual important Monastery in Christianity.

Saint Catherine's Monastery officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Located at the foot of Mount Sinai, it was built between 548 and 565, and is the world's oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery.

The monastery was built by the orders of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, enclosing what is claimed to be the burning bush seen by Moses.

Centuries after its foundation, the body of Saint Catherine of Alexandria was said to be found in a cave in the area, was taken to the monastery; Saint Catherine's relics turned it into an important pilgrimage site, and the monastery was eventually renamed after the saint.

Catherine was a popular saint in Europe during the Middle Ages; her story says that, for defending Christianity, she was sentenced to death on a spiked breaking wheel, but, at her touch, the wheel shattered. It was then ordered that she be beheaded.

The relics of Saint Catherine, kept to this day inside the monastery, have made it a favourite site of pilgrimage.

The patronal feast of the monastery is the Feast of the Transfiguration.