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

Day, that he may celebrate it with them and share their misery and their suffering. Easter, being God's guarantee for the final ...

enabled them to suffer injuries and even death without giving in or giving up. Antoni, the chief of solitaries and aged saint, ...

When time passed and there was neither a sign of them nor a message from them, Julius decided to open the Council sessions anyw ...

valuable document and because it proves that the Bishop of Rome at that time exercised no universal jurisdiction and did not hav ...

confirmed by the councils cannot be abrogated by some individuals ... " After going into the details of the coalition between th ...

intellectual activities – studying, writing, praying and discreetly sowing the Seed of Christ s teachings. These activities, tog ...

court there were eyes to spy, ears to eavesdrop and tongues to betray, he practiced absolute reserve. Furthermore, every time he ...

harmony within the Church. The Arians and Eusebians, however, were quite alarmed. They could not refuse to go-as they had refuse ...

colleagues that peace may be restored to the Church Universal. But they still persisted in not showing up, and so Athanasius flu ...

"Constantius, Victorious, Augustus, to Athanasius: Our clemency and our goodness do not permit us to leave you much longer to th ...

safeguard his peaceful return, and would see to it that life return to normal within the Church of Alexandria. With all these a ...

Emperors, the support of innumerable bishops and the unanimous applause of Orient and Occident. His heart was overjoyed to see t ...

calumnies beat as the waves beat against a rock. Their bitter experience throughout twenty five years had taught them that as lo ...

Nonetheless, he realised that he must be on guard. Clouds were gathering thick and fast on the horizon and he must prepare for t ...

Very few Oriental bishops attended the Milan council; while there were over three hundred Occidentals. As soon as they assemble ...

his yoke with majestic calmness, and continued to teach his people and strengthen their hearts. Sometime later, an imperial secr ...

couplet. The Faithful obeyed; they stood firm, making of their own bodies a bulwark between their Pope and his enemies. While th ...

them against the heretics-and thus his vigilance never slumbered.^42 l73. But where had Athanasius gone and how did he man- age ...

of George-and he was servile, ignorant and brutal, the type of man willing to execute any orders to commit atrocities as long as ...

At the first monastery, he learned of the departure of St. Antoni from this life. The bond of love which had cemented his heart ...