By Otto F. A. Meinardus
Within the fourth century A.D. the deserts of Egypt observed the delivery of Christian monasticism lower than the tutelage of the barren region fathers. due to the fact that then the flow has unfold world wide. This ordinary paintings lines the historic improvement of the entire presently inhabited Coptic monasteries, drawing on a large choice of assets, together with debts by means of early Western tourists.
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Sylvester of St. Aignam reported in 1651 that the Patriarch had permitted him to preach in Coptic churches,51 and Fr. Johannes Baptista of St. Aignam sent a detailed account of the mission of the Capuchins to the French minister Colbert. He records that since 1630, the fathers had often preached in Coptic churches and that they had absolved many Copts, including priests and monks. 52 In the account of their travels, Monceaux and Laisne observe that many Europeans had visited the Monastery of St.
Sicard climbed up to the cave of St. Antony where he celebrated Mass. On the trip down, Fr. Sicard engaged again in theological debates in an attempt to fulfil his mission. The efforts of Fr. Sicard and other missionaries of the various Latin orders to convert the monks of the Monastery of St. Antony led Anba Yusab, bishop of Girga and Akhmim, to write some thirty-one articles in defence of the Coptic faith. Yusab, who lived for many years as a monk at the Monastery of St. 62 On 9 April, 1730, Tourtechot de Granger arrived at the monastery.
Antony's and its source of wealth in the Nile valley is just a fraction of that of its sister monastery at Mount Clysma. In spite of its old age and its long tradition, it has been treated rather like a step-child. St. Antony's fame travelled from shore to shore; St. Macarius' ascetic enthusiasm inspired literally thousands to follow him into the Wadi 'n-Natrun; St. Pachomius saw in his life-time the fruits of his energetic labour and discipline. St. Paul the Theban, though he was the first of the desert monks, the prince of anchorites, left no rules to be followed, no theology to be studied, only a cave.