Word: coptic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whirlwind, two-day tour of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Dr. Fisher was honored by Armenian Orthodox and Greek Orthodox patriarchs, Coptic and Maronite prelates. Anglican bishops, a Lutheran provost, an Ethiopian abbot, Franciscan monks, a Moslem sheik. But even the tensions of Israeli-Arab politics could not disturb the Primate. Before a crowd of 1,000 people, Bethlehem's Mayor Ayoub Musallam called on the archbishop to look carefully at the "plight and situation of the Arab refugees, our brethren who are still living in tents, huts and caves." Expertly sidestepping Ayoub's entreaty, Dr. Fisher answered: "What...
HIDDEN 7,226 ft. high on the Abyssinian plateau, all but inaccessible to the outside world, lies a forgotten city in a land where, according to Homer, the sun is supposed to set. The holy city of Aksum, spiritual capital of the Ethiopian Coptic Church, was once a flourishing market on the trade routes of Greece and Rome, is now reduced to a clutter of huts and crumbling relics in the mountains 350 miles north of Addis Ababa. Yet in Aksum, Ethiopians believe, Sheba once reigned, and in Aksum for nearly 3,000 years Abyssinian kings and rulers...
...ceremony was performed on the site of the church of St. Mary of Sion, where Ethiopians believe that the son of Solomon and Sheba deposited the Tablet of Moses. So revered is the church that worshipers kiss its steps before they enter; so sacred are its confines that by Coptic custom no woman has ever been permitted within its enclosure, and few male foreigners have been allowed inside by the priests who devote their lives to protecting its treasures...
...Church of the Holy Sepulchre was destroyed by the Persians in 616 and by the Egyptians in 1009. But more disastrous to the shrine than its pagan enemies have been its Christian friends. Today the church is occupied by six Christian sects-Syrian Orthodox (Jacobite), Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, Coptic, Roman Catholic, Abyssinian- all of them so caught up in denominational jealousies that they cannot agree on repairs or on anything else. They hold their services in spaces as carefully marked as those in a parking lot, and about as large (the areas were frozen by Turkish Sultan Abdul Majid...
...handsome, black-browed Justine, a nymphomaniac with a neurotic need of intrigue; large-eyed, blonde Clea, who, when stripped, looks as "naked and slender as an Easter lily"; and blind Liza, still dotty with love for her suicide brother Pursewarden. Here, too, are his strangely ineffectual men: Nessim, the Coptic millionaire, in trouble both with his wife Justine and the British government; Dr. Balthazar, the homosexual cabalist; Mountolive, the stiff-necked British ambassador; and Darley, the Irish schoolteacher, who tries to put together the carnal jigsaw puzzle of his friends...