Witness the journey of the Holy Family in Egypt

Holy Family in Egypt













Shaker said in a special statement to Al-Masry Al-Youm that the family did not settle in one place, so there are many monasteries and churches, documented by religious sources and rare manuscripts in monasteries and churches. "The journey ranged from a week or a few days, Some cities, and in the other settled for a month and longest period in Mount Qusakam and extended 185 days ».





He added: "After God ordered the Virgin to flee her birth from the Herodus to Egypt, there were three known commercial and war routes that the traveler could travel at that time, avoiding the known routes and choosing unknown routes, and the journey began, which was divided into three phases."









He added: "The journey began from the city of Rafah and then Arish and then to Al-Faramah. It was the last holy family station in Sinai. It was an important place for the monastic order. Then it went to Qantara. The Roman governor Tannius, and then arrived near Ismailia, where a water spring blew up and then headed west to Wadi al-Tamilat, and reached the city of Heron Polis near AbuSir ».





Holy Family in Egypt









He then went to Tal Basta, where the statues were destroyed and the spring of a well of water after the refusal of its people to give water to the virgin, and then they went to Tal Basta, And he set up a church and then they went to Belbeis, where they rested under a tree of sycamores under which the people were protesting until 1850, and then they were cut down and built by the mosque of Uthman ibn al-Ansari and visited by Napoleon.





He continued: «Then moved to the province of Gharbia, where the city of Samannoud and rested under the tree of sycamore built a church of the Virgin and martyr Abanob in the fourth century AD, and a water well next to Major it was said that the Virgin bread, and then a church in the name of St. And then moved to the village of Sakha and built a place and church annually on May 22, then crossed the Nile west of Desouq and headed south to the province of the lake, until they reached Trana near the calligraphy and then Wadi Natroun in the area of ​​the wilderness of Sheehit, And Bishop Bishoy, Syriac and Baramo , Then crossed the Nile to the south until they reached the arches charity. Shaker explained that the second phase included En (Heliopolis) Matriya and Ain Shams, and was inhabited by two thousand Jews and rested family under the tree of jellies and there saw a miracle that Christ took the stick that was leaning on Joseph Najjar and break it absolutely, and planted and put his hand in the ground, From which the oil of the balsam is extracted with a smart smell. The remains of the well and the tree are still inside an open museum named Mary's Tree Museum, and there are the remains of the tree with the names of the soldiers of the French campaign that they recorded after their recovery from the disease of the conjunctivitis. In which Mr. Mass was washed And then went to the doors of Babylon (ancient Egypt), where the church of Abi Serja archaeological known as martyrs Sergius and Vakhis, and then installed a boat Nieli to the Maadi where the Church of the Virgin ».





Shaker said: "The third phase began when they installed the boat for the tribal face, where they started in the city of Memphis, then the Bahnasa, the monastery of the garnus, the church of Mary and the well, and then to the mountain of the bird, which is one of the most important stations of the family after Abi Sarja and Muharraq. A church celebrated in the rock, and there is a celebration attended by thousands, and there occurred a miracle prevented Christ rock fell from it, and then Ashmounin and headed to Dirut in Assiut Vosirip Vader Muharraq at Mount Qusakam, the most important stations of the family, where they spent six months and ten days and founded the first church in Egypt The world, and now by the monastery of the Virgin and the remains of the Archaeological Church The trip ended in the Mount and has a cave oil depot carved in the mountain, the last stations of the family, where the angel appeared to Joseph the carpenter and ordered him to return to Palestine ».





He added: "The journey lasted two years, six months and ten days, and the family returned from Qusiya to Maadi and then to the fort of Babylon, where a cave is located at the bottom of the church of Abu Musaraj, then north of Mustard, then to Belbeis, then Qantara, then to Palestine, through Gaza, and finally settling in Nazareth. It is a historical route that must be part of UNESCO's World Heritage, especially since it contains many monasteries, ancient churches, water wells, manuscripts and important icons. "