Greco-Roman Catacombs of St. George reopen in Old Cairo (+VIDEO)

Cairo, June 9, 2020

    

Ancient catacombs under the site where Christ lived with His Most Pure Mother and St. Joseph for three years in Cairo were blessed and reopened yesterday, with the celebration of the Divine Liturgy.

The Patriarchate of Alexandria had decided several months ago to renovate the St. George Catacombs and to create a meeting place of religion, culture, and history, and yesterday, Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria blessed the renovated space and consecrated the new chapel dedicated to St. Fanourios located within the catacombs, several meters below the ground, reports Romfea.

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“A dream came true today,” the Patriarch said during the service, noting that after the St. George Rotunda was renovated, it was time to take care of the catacombs, which recall the terrible era of persecution in the early Christian Church.

The catacombs are located under the rotunda, part of the Holy Patriarchal Monastery of St. George, where, according to Church Tradition, St. George was martyred, and where the Holy Family spent three years with the infant Christ.

    

“Here, in the new chapel in the catacombs of St. George of Old Cairo, the Divine Liturgy was heard again today for the first time, proving the eternal nature of the monastery, giving a message of love and peace to all peoples,” Pat. Theodoros said.

The Patriarch also signed the antimension for the altar in the new chapel.

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6/9/2020

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Comments
Romana6/10/2020 10:55 am
The term has nothing applied to religion! Definition:- Greco-Roman world The Greco-Roman world, Greco-Roman culture, or the term Greco-Roman, when used as an adjective, as understood by modern scholars and writers, refers to those geographical regions and countries that culturally were directly, protractedly and intimately influenced by the language, culture, government and religion of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In exact terms the area refers to the "Mediterranean world", the extensive tracts of land centered on the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, the "swimming-pool and spa" of the Greeks and Romans, i.e. one wherein the cultural perceptions, ideas and sensitivities of these peoples were dominant. As mentioned, the term Greco-Roman world describes those regions who were for many generations subjected to the government of the Greeks and then the Romans and thus accepted or at length were forced to embrace them as their masters and teachers. This process was aided by the seemingly universal adoption of Greek as the language of intellectual culture and at least Eastern commerce, and of Latin as the tongue for public management and forensic advocacy, especially in the West. Though these languages never became the native idioms of the rural peasants, they were the languages of the urbanites and cosmopolitan elites, and at the very least intelligible, if only as corrupt or multifarious dialects to those who lived within the large territories and populations outside of the Macedonian settlements and the Roman colonies. Certainly, all men of note and accomplishment, whatever their ethnic extractions, spoke and wrote in Greek and/or Latin.
John6/9/2020 8:37 pm
What does this article mean by using the term Greco-Roman? I am very confused as to why it was necessary to use that term and what it even means. Are you implying that only Greek-Roman people worshipped and lived here? What about the ethnic Copts that lived in this region for thousands of years before the Greeks conquered Egypt through force? I hope that this is not an attempt to revise history, and Hellenise it.
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