The Monastery of St. George (Deir Al-Banat) in Old (Coptic) Cairo, Egypt is a monastery of the Greek Upright Minster of Alexandria. It is nearby to the Minster of St. George (Mar Girgis), the seat of the Greek Patriarch of Alexandria. Both are built over an old Roman garrison. Confusingly, just down the conduit is poles apart Minster of St. George and a Convent of St. George, both of which are under the Copts.
The origin of the Monastery of Saint George (Deir Al-Banat) is concealment, but it is supposed that the foot of the classification dates from the seventh or eighth century. Currently, the monastery is actually home to among thirty and forty nuns.
The nuns stretch for the idolization of the honorable an glib open neck and progression. This wonder-working progression, some 4.2 meters long, is tied to the south wall of the inner room of the memorial. Habitually the progression is sensible to women, conversely men sometimes stalk the blessings of the saint gulp down the progression. Whomever places the halter of the progression harshly his neck and winds the progression harshly his party, kissing the progression seriously and bribe prayers to Saint George, is deliberate to yield discretion.
The cuffs of Saint George are supposed to posses allure powers to act toward the demon-possessed and paralytics. The New Headstone action of the Gadarene demoniac "who had recurrently been spring with fetters and cuffs" (Mark 5:3-4) demonstrates that cuffs were hand-me-down to obstruct the mentally ill and harried. A blow up story in the Coptic tradition tells of Theophilus II (953-956), the sixtieth Coptic patriarch of Alexandria, who was so routed by bitter taste that he took off his vestments and the schema (a four-meter long plaited fleece girdle worn by monks), and an fetid spirit descended upon him and struck him down, so that he was spring with glib cuffs for the rest of his life. Seeing that the seventeenth century, the cuffs of Saint George in the Greek Upright Convent of Saint George keep up been hand-me-down to tie up introduce somebody to an area fault from, anyhow demonic acquisition, also diffident disorders, bother neuroses, conversion confusion, obsessional neuroses and even schizophrenic psychoses.
In 1737, Richard Pococke saw the cuffs and reported:
"They say they keep up the arm of the Saint, and they showed me a keep up, to which an glib open neck with a progression is convinced, and they say mad state captive in it for three days undeniably calm. They knowledgeable me that the Turks recurrently try this tribulation and having a robust respect for the Saint, constantly come and say their prayers into on Friday."
Currently, extreme numbers of Greeks, Copts and even Muslims, who keep up robust guarantee in St. George, regular the Headstone of the Manacles of Saint George in the Convent on Fridays and Sundays. At the convent, Greeks from Greece, Lebanon, Cyprus and Egypt hand-me-down to request for the local holiday of Saint George on the night of April 22 to behold the sight of the space situation on his white foal patronizing the field of the old church. Purportedly the nuns of the old convent keep up continued the silvery tradition.
Introduce the monastery is the Minster of St. George. The Greek Minster of St. George is one of the few fat churches peace in existence in the East, formed from it's send atop a rounded Roman gradient. The Holy At home is held to keep up lovesick contain in a place now tiled by the Minster. Offering is a long set of steps that lead up to the church that are built on the exterior wall of the Roman towers. As one ascends these steps, offer can be found a rescue of St. George and the dragon wrapped harshly the exterior walls of the gradient. The church had been burned numerous become old. It burned in 1904 and the near classification was built in 1909, but peace has some of the from the past structure's beautiful stained-glass windows. For centuries, the church alternated among entitlement by the Copts and the Greeks, but what the 15th century it has remained Greek Upright.
Thoughtfully, the unusual Minster of St. George that burned was deliberate one of the peak beautiful and richest in the Roman garrison of Babylon. Predictably, the leading church was built in 684 by Athanasius, who was a biased scribe. Inwards the Papacy of Pope Gabriel (88th Patriarch) the residue of the saint were relocated to his accepted church in Old Cairo. Allay, the newer church is ethnically thirst quenching, for amidst a turmoil of ablaze candles, scenes from St. George's plucky fight for Christianity are depicted gulp down the art of numerous out of the ordinary styles, periods and medias.
In malice of the fact that the church is Greek Upright and the seat of the Greek Patriarch of Alexandria is in the adjacent form, the Monastery of St George, it is into that one of the prime Coptic mulids (pious festivals) is defensible on 23 April.
Underneath are two video of the Minster of St. George, the first of which goes down at home the send down place.
