Word: coptic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conventional ecstasy at the first sight of the Sphinx and its "terrifying stare," but as for the temples, they "bore me profoundly." The living panorama of the voyage, however, made all his senses tingle with excitement. He responded to everything strange and savage and grotesque. Naked Coptic monks swam out to the young Frenchman's boat to beg for baksheesh and swam back with coins between their teeth. Stray cows poked their noses into ruins that Du Camp was conscientiously measuring. It was fun to discuss theology with prelates of obscure religions, or the technique of the bastinado with...
Disunited Rite. But even delegates from the Eastern Rite, which has an ancient tradition of ordaining married men, were not united in asking for a change in the celibacy rule. Josyf Cardinal Slipyi, the exiled patriarch of the Ukraine, spoke on behalf of the Eastern practice. But Coptic Patriarch Stephanos Sidarouss declared that the Latin Rite would be unwise to change its rules, because married priests may become too absorbed with family matters...