Posts tagged with: monastery

Africa and Byzantium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By Phoebe Farag Mikhail A few months ago, on a visit to Egypt, I had the opportunity to visit the ancient archeological heritage site, Abu Mena, just outside the modern Monastery of St. Mina near Alexandria. Believers from all over... Read More

From White Martyrdom to Red

by Phoebe Farag Mikhail Around the world, the Coptic community, scholars of Coptology, and the ecumenical community are reeling over the violent murder of His Grace Bishop Epiphanius, the abbot of the Monastery of St. Macarius. That a monastery would... Read More