As Egypt promotes the trail of the Holy Family as a major tourist experience, Ahram Online republishes an account of stops and cities where the Virgin Mary, Joseph and Jesus found safety and ...

Recently, Egypt's Ministry of Tourism & Antiquity has launched the Holy Family Trail, stringing together some 25 stops along the celebrated route of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The approach to Egypt's ...

"The Virgin Lady", a 12th century church, was found in the city. The story of the holy family’s journey from Palestine to Egypt has long been recorded with dedication by historians and authors ...

Which turned a new page in its history, and the visit of the Holy Family in Egypt took 3 years. Pope “Theophilus” the 23rd Patriarch in the See of St. Mark in Egypt between 385-412 AD according to the ...

Cairo — Every year on the first of June, Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church and its members commemorate the holy family's escape to Egypt. According to the Biblical story, the Archangel Gabriel ...

2:17)—the salvation of one of Israel’s oldest enemies alongside the holy family. God moves to Egypt to “say to those called ‘Not my people,’ ‘You are my people.’” And just as he ...

Zahi Hawass reviews the route taken by the Holy Family in Egypt after they fled the persecution of king Herod in the early years of the first century CE Before I explain the ancient journey of the ...

In the year 1 BC, Gabriel, the angel of the Lord, appeared to a betrothed virgin named Mary, to announce to her the birth of a son named Jesus or Jesus. Of course, the angel realized that her fiancé ...