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

XVI. AN ORPHAN FROM MEMPHIS BECOMES 23d ALEXA NDRIAN POPE A. 228. How Theophilus and his sister became wards of Abba Athanasius. ...

One Sunday she escorted the two children to Church, and Providence so willed that the celebrant of the Liturgy on that day would ...

appropriate to tear down the .mounds and replace them with that church. A rich and devout woman happened to be among those who w ...

old pagan temples into churches. He accepted and forthwith an imperial edict was issued to that effect.^6 The first temple to be ...

Among them was an ascetic of great repute for his excessive charity, whose name was Isidorus. Having retired to the desert in hi ...

In his history of the Egyptian Saints, Pere Ch. d'Orleans began speaking of him by sharply criticising him, but ended his sectio ...

destroyed or fell into ruins. The one remaining to this day is in a small town that also bears the saint’s name and is located i ...

for gradually foreign influences faded away and Egyptian art became purely Egyptian and in time fiercely nationalistic. The insp ...

XVI. NOTES About 40 kilometres south of Cairo, this was the oldest capital of Pharaonic Egypt. It has now been reduced to the s ...

Breccia: “Alexandrea ad Egyptum” p. 97; P. d’Orleans, op. Cit. Vol. P. 405; Sozomen B VIII s. 15; Socrates B V ss. 16-17; Bufin ...

Coptic Synaxarium. In Arabic. Vol. I, p. 87. G.H. Costigan. “Sculpture and Painting in Coptic Art”. Pub. In ‘Le bulletin d’Arch ...

XVII.GREATER STRIVINGS A. Kyrillos, the ‘Pillar of Faith’ B. Shenouda the Archimandrite C. By the Waters of Jordan A. 238. Kyril ...

Antiochene Conventicle. Interception of Council’s letters. Arrival of Roman delegates. Unanimous condemnation of Nestorius. Cou ...

version of his name is Cyril, given here for the sake of those who would like to read more about him in any of the English-langu ...

been written by Emperor Julian after his apostasy. Kyrillos directly set himself to refute them in terms that were clear, strong ...

either separate or divide them. Such were the two natures of the Son of God. A further point made by Nestorius and strongly cont ...

Rather was he fulfilling his duty as a shepherd responsible for leading his flock into the right path. He then expounded the Ort ...

designated him by the well-earned title of ‘second Athanasius’... From the very first he saw – as Athanasius had seen in the Ari ...

an end to the controversy, he wrote letters to the Emperor, the Empress and the Emperor’s three sisters. The letter to the Emper ...

God; we do not believe that He is simply united under the semblance of dignity and power; these are new words alien tot he Faith ...