St anthony egypt monastery
St anthony egypt monastery
St anthony egypt monastery wikipedia!
The Monastery of Saint Anthony is an ancient Coptic Christian monastery and among the oldest in the world, where rituals are still observed just as they have been for hundreds already.
In fact, the rituals have remained unchanged for the more than sixteen centuries.
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Apart from contributing to the spread of the concept of monasticism around Western Europe and becoming one of the first widely known printed works in Christian literature of the Middle Ages, the life of St.
Anthony the hermit is a remarkable one.
One of the most well known of the “Desert Fathers”, or group of Christian monks who lived in the Egyptian Sahara Desert beginning in the third century, St. Anthony’s final resting place would eventually become the oldest inhabited Christian monastery in the world.
The Monastery of Saint Anthony is located in the eastern Sahara Desert of Egypt, deep in the Red Sea Mountains near modern Hurghada.
It was built only a few years after the death of St. An