Deir Anba Baramus (The Monastery of the Virgin Mary) is about 4km northwest of the Monastery of St. Bishoi. Take a taxi from Wadi an-Natnin town, or catch a ride from Deir Anba Bishoi for about 50pt. This is the oldest monastery in the Natmn valley. Relics of St. Moses and St. Isadore are kept in the first section of the old church. In the old days, the body of St. Moses would shake the hands of passers-by through a small aperture in his casket. For the past 200 years, however, the corpse has not been quite as gregarious and the aperture has been sealed. Tradition holds that a rvpt under the altar holds the remains of Maximus and Domidius, sons of the Roman Emperor Valentinus (later St. Valentine) who both monked here. The oldest hitectural element in the church is the 4th-century column of St. Arsanious.