<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Some of this section's listed sources may not be reliable . Please help this article by looking for better, more reliable sources . Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted . (January 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Some of this section's listed sources may not be reliable . Please help this article by looking for better, more reliable sources . Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted . (January 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> In the New Testament, the Ark is mentioned in the Letter to the Hebrews and the Revelation to St. John . Hebrews 9: 4 states that the Ark contained "the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant ." Revelation 11: 19 says the prophet saw God's temple in heaven opened, "and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple ." </P> <P> Roman Catholic writers connect this verse with the Woman of the Apocalypse in Revelation 12: 1, which immediately follows, and say that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the "Ark of the New Covenant ." Carrying the saviour of mankind within her, she herself became the Holy of Holies . This is the interpretation given in the third century by Gregory Thaumaturgus, and in the fourth century by Saint Ambrose, Saint Ephraem of Syria and Saint Augustine . The Catholic Church teaches this in the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "Mary, in whom the Lord himself has just made his dwelling, is the daughter of Zion in person, the Ark of the Covenant, the place where the glory of the Lord dwells . She is' the dwelling of God...with men" </P>

When was the arc of the covenant last seen