Word: coptic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remote. The style of the Nubian monks who painted them seems to have evolved from the naive manner of Egypt's Copts into more severe stylization. An unidentified deacon with basilisk eyes and a mandarin mustache shows the ability of the Nobatian artist to transform a standard Coptic portrait with a sparsity of line more Byzantine than that of the Byzantines...
...banker named Nessim (John Vernon), had been yearning after the aloof British diplomat Pursewarden (Dirk Bogarde), although she had to content herself with the favors of Darley (Michael York), a young writer and lover of a belly dancer named Melissa (Anna Karina). Suddenly Justine and Nessim are revealed as Coptic Christians involved in smuggling guns to Palestine so that the Jews can fight the British. Pursewarden, who knows of their treachery, keeps silent, apparently out of love for Justine. Melissa meanwhile goes off to a TB clinic, and Nessim's brother (Robert Forster) is assassinated by his own people...
Hardly contributing to the spirit of sanctity is the constant churchly bickering over many of the shrines. Six denominations-Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Armenian, Syrian, Coptic and Abyssinian-have rights to the Holy Sepulcher; for years the basilica has been near collapse because the churches cannot agree on how to make the necessary repairs. The interior of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, co-owned by Orthodox, Catholics and Armenians, is a tasteless clutter of rival altars, lamps, candelabra, icons and statues. In addition, many of the shrines are ringed by bazaars and barkers, hawking everything from plastic crosses...
...million Coptic Christians of Ethiopia, one of the spiritual high points of the year is the feast...
...Ethiopian Christians adopted the Monophysitic teaching that Jesus had one nature in which the human and divine were commingled-a doctrine that was condemned by the Council of Chalcedon in 451 A.D. Branded heretical, the Ethiopian Church gradually lost touch with the mainstream of Christianity and even with the Coptic Patriarchate of Alexandria, to which it is still theoretically subject. Since 1959, Ethiopia has had its own patriarch, the blind septuagenarian Basileos...