St. Pavels monastery. The Christian church in Egypt is proud of Sacred Pavels monastery, the unique construction including church cave
Christian church in Egypt and Sacred Pavel Monastyr St. Pavel's Monastery (once a day 6:00-16:00; it is closed during the Stately post and Christmas) always remained in the shadow a monastery St. Antonija, let it not the tourism centre in Egypt, but after all costs your attention.
His founder (not to confuse to apostle Pavel), being the orphan, in 16 years has left Alexandria, escaping from prosecutions of governor Deky that has made him the most raneshny known eremite. Shortly before Pavel's death in 348 it was visited by Antony, and Pavel has asked it to bring a cloak of the Alexandria patriarch that him have buried in it. Antony has left to bring it, but on a turnaround way he has seen Pavel's soul which was uplifted on heavens by angels and when has come back, has found his dead. While Antony reflected that to it to do, there were two lions and have dug a grave for a body so Antony has wrapped it in a cloak as in a shroud, and has taken Pavel's tunic from palm leaves as a gift to the patriarch which put on it then Christmas, the Epiphany and Easter. The monastery (Deyr Anba Bula or Deyr Mari Bulus is called) was a form of posthumous honouring of followers of Pavel: tower walls are constructed round a cave where he lived decades. Riches of this monastery enticed guests generally than the monastery Sacred Antonija - Egypt was a place not only only pilgrimage. The church in Egypt quite often enticed attention the infinite wealth. In 1484 all monks have been killed by bedouins who besieged St. Pavel's monastery in an extent of eight years; restored by patriarch Gabriel VII, it has been destroyed again at the end of the XVI century. If you have decided to get round to Egypt, try to get to this monastery, there is a lot of fascinating.
Sights of a monastery: where perfectly to have a rest in Egypt with utility as a hobby
This monastery in Egypt is much less, than the monastery St. Antonija also looks more primitively. There are four churches, but St. Pavel's church is his spiritual centre, the church cave contains remains sacred, here you сможетеясь perfectly to have a rest in Egypt, having rejected vanity and enjoying a pacification and tranquillity. Walls of church are painted with frescos which concede to monastery frescos St. Antonija though they and have better remained. The monk leads you to side-altars of temples and will tell about icons: direct attention to an angel at the furnace with adolescents Shadrakh, Meshakh and Abednego, and ostrich's the small egg, hanging down from a ceiling - the Revival sign. The southern sanctuary of the greatest church of St. Mischa comprises the gilt icon representing the head of John Krestitel on a dish. When bedouins made attack on a monastery, monks were locked in a five-floor tower with a source of the water passing on the undercover channel. Now it is not enough of it to provide 75 monks and guests so water bring outside. There is a small shop where it is possible to get products, and the cheap cafeteria located behind monastic grounds. Premature booking of rounds to Egypt will allow you to plan laboriously an excursion aaplet, namely, visit here.
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