Towse: views from the hill

March 27, 2008

Our guide at the monastery: Dier Al Anba Bishoy

Filed under: photographs,travel — Towse @ 7:18 am

Dier Al Anba Bishoy at Wadi el-Natrun of Egypt on our way back from Alexandria to Cairo (for our flight home).

 
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Charming guy. Well-spoken.

And! knew of which he spoke.

He’d been living at the monastery for twenty-seven years. He had the best voice, cadenced, mellow.

Does he believe that St. Bishoy’s body (on view in the church) has really been preserved through the graces of Our Lord for the past seventeen hundred years because Our Lord promised St. Bishoy?

Tradition has it that …

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