After their short, but all-too-felt, stay in Old Cairo, the Holy Family moved in a southerly direction, reaching the modern Cairo suburb of Maadi which, in earliest Pharaonic times was an outlying ...
In the earliest decades of Christianity, the desert expanses of Wadi el-Natroun became the site of anchoretic settlement and, later, of many monasteries, in spiritual commemoration of the Holy ...
While emptying her deceased brother's house, Mrs. Elisabeth van Nieuwland discovered "The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt" in October 2022, not yet knowing the origin of this painting.
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