Word: macarius
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From God they may have come, but Matta played a large part in their shaping. The abbot of St. Macarius monastery near Cairo, Matta was summoned to Alexandria by Sadat a week before the crackdown. Sadat and Matta discussed ways of defusing the looming crisis. Sadat asked Matta how far he could push Shenouda. The abbot says he outlined Sadat's limits in dealing with the Pope. When the ouster was decided on, it was Matta who submitted the names of five bishops who would collectively take over the Pope's functions...
...that jokes about masochism, the 4th century ascetics of Egypt and Syria are hard to take seriously: St. Maron, who spent eleven years in a hollowed-out tree trunk; St. Acepsimas, who wore so many chains he had to crawl on all fours; Macarius the Younger, who felt so guilty about swatting an insect that he sat naked in a swamp for six months until mosquito bites made him look like a leper...
...supervisors met to finish the job of de-Hueyizing their university. They elected as president Blackie Hodges, now a major general. A group of undergraduates, irked at getting a soldier president, lowered the University flag to half-mast. But Louisiana's Acting President Paul Macarius Hebert, who had done a bang-up job of cleaning up after Smith, swallowed his disappointment at not getting the job, told General Hodges: "You may count on [our] enthusiastic support...
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