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Macarius The Egyptian (Macarius The Great), Saint

MACARIUS THE EGYPTIAN, SAINT, or Macarius the Great The illustrious fourth-century anchorite in the desert of SCETIS (feast day: 27 Baramhat). He was called the Great, or the Egyptian, to distinguish him from his contemporary, MACARIUS ALEXANDRINUS. A monastery in Scetis is still called by his name, DAYR ANBA MAQAR. Macarius the Egyptian was born …

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Macarius Alexandrinus, Saint

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

MACARIUS ALEXANDRINUS, SAINT A fourth-century monk at Kellia (feast day: 6 Bashans). He is surnamed the Alexandrian or the Citizen to distinguish him from his contemporary, the celebrated Saint MACARIUS THE EGYPTIAN. He was born at the end of the third century in Alexandria, where, before becoming a monk in circumstances not known, he practiced …

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Nitria

Groups, History / By Armia FAYEZ

NITRIA With SCETIS and the KELLIA, one of the principal monastic habitations, founded about 325-330 by AMUN. The site, long confused with the present Wadi al-Natrun, was finally identified by H. G. Evelyn-White. It is located in the western part of the Delta, about 10 miles (15 km) south of Damanhur, where the village of …

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Abgar, King Of Edessa

History / By Youssef Matta

ABGAR A king of Edessa in the first half of the first century (it would seem between 4 B.C. and A.D. 50) and the subject of a Christian legend found for the first time in Eusebius (Historia ecclesiastica 1.13.5-22). According to this version, Abgar, being ill, writes a letter to Jesus asking him to visit …

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