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about the accomplishments of 19 30s Coptic cultural figures that was published
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- These are concepts that belong to religious tradition and are transm.itted in a
way that cannot always be scientifically investigated, which should not dim.inish
their sign.ificance. I would like to thank the priests of the church of St. Mercurius
Abu's-Saifain for their kind support in the project, as well as my senior trainees
Magdi Mansour Badawy, Hanan Nairouz, and Mona Hussein, for their assistance. - Abu-el-Makarim, a Coptic priest from the church Harat Zuweilah in Cairo, lef t
a manuscript dated 1206 that describes the monasteries and churches of the Nile
Delta. He mentions that in the church of St. George at Netel near Port Said,
one icon of St. George is painted on a piece of the very wood used to torture
the martyr saint himself. See Father Samuel. 19 90. Icons et iconographie en
Egypte au XIIe siecle d'apres Ie manuscrit d'Abu-el-Makarim, publie en Arabe
en Caire en 19 84. Le Monde Copte, No. 18. Limoges.
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