 I was literally blown away by, first of all, their condition, by their age, by their message, and by the fact that you still have them. The monastery here has never been destroyed and never been abandoned in all of its 1,700 years. This is the poor monastery at the edge of the world compared to the great imperial monasteries of Constantinople. But those monasteries no longer exist. Sinai has survived. So by comparison, we have an incredible wealth of both manuscripts and icons.