Abdel Messih El-Makari
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Abouna Abdel Messih El-Makari (or El-Manahri) was a Coptic Orthodox monk and priest, and a 20th century Coptic saint. Pope Kyrillos VI testified as to the holiness and asceticism of this contemporary saint.
[edit] Life
Saint Abdel Messih El-Makari was born in 1892 in the village of Abou Shehata, Mattay district, El-Menya governorate, Egypt. His parents Henein and Esther were both Christians. When he grew up, he wanted to be a spiritual warrior in the army of celibates, so he left the world and headed to the Monastery of St. Abba Samuel the Confessor in El-Kalamoun mountain. He did so several times, and each time his father would come to the monastery and bring him back home, and this was associated with the death of a large number of his father's cattles. At last, his father allowed him to do what he wanted, so he joined the monastery of St. Abba Makar (Macarius) the Great in the desert of Scetes (Wadi El-Natrun) [1] and became a monk. Finally, he moved to El-Manahra village, Mattay district. He died on Easter Sunday morning of the 6th of Barmouda 1669 A.M. (Coptic calendar)/April 14, 1963.
