
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 Maady which in earliest Pharaonic times, was an outlying district of Memphis, the capital of Egypt then; and, at Maady, they boarded a sailing-boat which carried them up the Nile towards southern Egypt.
An event of miraculous import occurred on Friday the 3rd of the w, Coptic month of Baramhat – the 12th of March-1976 A.D. A Holy Bible of unknown provenance was carried by the lapping ripples of the Nile to the bank below the Church. It was open to the page of Isaiah 19:25 the page declaring, “Blessed be Egypt My People”. The Bible is now behind glass in the Sanctuary of the Virgin in the Church for all to see.