THE STORY OF THE COPTS - THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN EGYPT

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THE STORY OF THE COPTS THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN EGYPT by Iris Habib el Masri BOOK 1 FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH B ...

Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ King of Kings and Lord of lords ...

H.H. Pope Shenouda III, 117th Pope of Alexandria and the See of St. Mark ...

St. Anthony, Coptic Orthodox Monastery of Southern California, U.S.A., introduces "The Story of the Copts" by IRIS HABIB EL MASR ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It is with deep gratitude that I offer my thanks to our Heavenly Father whose aid and guidance have been my lode ...

INTRODUCTION A. History is Life Not long ago, Providence so willed that I sit at table with a number of foreigners. During the c ...

Cyrus Gordon, the eminent contemporary American scholar, made once on our behavior at Chalcedon. It was: "When the Egyptians wen ...

the Madonna and Child were alike unknown to devotion and to art, we may gain some sense of what changes Egypt wrought in Christi ...

across the ages led to their acceptance of the New Faith, which was compatible with their sense of mysticism. This concord was d ...

NOTES Eutyches denied the humanity of the Christ, pretending that His body was ethereal and not of flesh and blood like ours. T ...

John 1:9. Matt. II:15 and Hosea XI:1. Matt. II: 13-14. Isaiah XIX:1. Mark IV:8. ...

THE BEHOLDER OF GOD MARK THE EVANGELIST SAINT AND MARTYR ...

I. ST. MARK His childhood. His personality. Alexandria in the First Christian Century. St. Mark's arrival in Egypt. Propagation ...

house the Passover was eaten3. This same house was the meeting place of the Apostles after the Crucifixion of Christ.^4 An upper ...

hundred feet.^10 To this wondrous city came Mark the Apostle of Christ. On the day of his arrival, he walked from street to str ...

As the number of people joining the Faith continued to increase, the authorities sought to lay hands on the Apostle. When the b ...

The Apostle's zeal seemed to increase as his work flourished. This infuriated the nobles of the city all the more, and they dec ...

Venetian merchants stole the Evangelist's body, and carried it to their home town, Venice, whose Patron Saint was Saint Mark. Th ...

I. NOTES This is the date recorded in the Coptic Annals; other historians say that it was about the year 55 A.D. Luke X:1; Dida ...