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

Acts 15:36-41. Arabic Ms. by the monk Shenouda El Baramusi vol. I pp. 11-19; Coptic Synaxarium, vol. I, p.127 and vol. II, pp. ...

Benedictine Father Monfaucon, where he says: "Marc, cedant aux desirs des fideles, prit la plume, et sous l'inspiration de l'Esp ...

II. THE CHAIR OF ALEXANDRIA The Apostolic Succession. Traditional Rites. Vigilant Shepherding. Divine Providence. Being the fou ...

head of a procession round the church, then stood before the sanctuary, and publicly stated that he would endeavour, to the best ...

II. NOTES "Prayer of the Fathers" from the Holy Liturgy of St. Mark known as "The Kyrillian," Eusebius: Hist. Eccles. VII, 4 an ...

III. THE SCHOOL OF ALEXANDRIA Ptolemies encourage learning. Mission of the School. Hellenising aim behind learning. School inau ...

philosophic and theological one. This latter transformation started even before Christianity. For the world to which the leaders ...

possible in big cities, where schools flourished and where commercial and social intercourse was inevitable and constant. In the ...

learned and more erudite. To help them attain this erudition, St. Mark had opened for them the Catechetical School.^3 Now, durin ...

"Apology", which he addressed to the Emperors Marcus, Aurelius and Commodius. Among the students of Athenagoras were Pantaenus a ...

(in the north of Yemen).^7 Then, once more, he assumed the deanship of the School. Meanwhile, the leaders of the Church felt th ...

Clement crowned their works with yet one grand service: they translated the Bible, both the Old and New Testaments, into Coptic. ...

Clement built his belief on the thesis that Christ was the Source that enlightened the hearts and minds of wise men. all through ...

despised chastity, and a public which had lost the sense of respect, he declared the grandeur of the Christian marriage, and the ...

philosophies were but stepping-stones, leading up to Christ.^13 Clement persevered in teaching and writing until the persecution ...

III. NOTES l. Ency. Brit., l4th ed., vol. I, pp. 581-2. “De l'Egypte Grecque a l'Egypte Copte" by Pierre Jouguet, pub. in “Le B ...

consideration is amply demonstrated in “The Evidence of the Oriental Church” pub. in Rome 1702 by the followers of the Greek Sch ...

IV. A. DEMETRIUS, THE VINEDRESSER How he was selected Pope. His attainment. The Epact devised by Demetrius. Its ratification by ...

knowledge with true humility and an ardent desire to learn, forgetful of rank or position”. As time went on, Demetrius became on ...

Eastern and Western Churches on the date of Easter celebration. The first few years after Abba Demetrius had taken the helm of ...