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...Mina el Muttawahad (Mina the Hermit), who spent years in the desert, then ruled the church until 1971 as Pope Kyrillos VI. He reformed the monasteries through renewed austerity and discipline. The second was Kyrillos' successor, Antonius as Suriani, who currently heads the church as Pope Shenouda lII. Before becoming a monk, Pope Shenouda was once a lay teacher in the Coptic Sunday school movement, another church development that inspired renewed interest in monasticism. Even now Pope Shenouda retires each week to a mud-stuccoed hut in the des ert for a day or more of meditation and prayer...
...Manhattan because impostors have been invading the thriving advertising testimonial business of true nobility in the U. S., Castilian Baron Giorgio Suriani di Castelnuovo and French Count Joseph Monneret de Villard formed a Noble-men's Club of America. Said Baron Castelnuovo: "For those of the 700 or 800 persons in New York qualified to claim noble titles we shall provide a dignified medium for commercial contacts...
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