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 Cyril VI of Alexandria 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, near the city of Matai, Al Minya governorate, Egypt. His parents, named Henein and Esther, were both Christians. When he grew up, he left the world and headed to the monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in Mount Qalamoun. 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 Saint Macarius the Great in the desert of Scetes where he became a monk. Finally, he moved to the village called El-Manahra in the district of Matai. He passed away on the morning of Easter Sunday, the 6th of Paremoude 1669 A.M. (April 14, 1963).
