 © copyright Norbert SchillerA young boy chases geese on a roof alongside the Church of Mar Girgis, built in the 1960’s, in the center of Bilbays. (Scan from the book “Be Thou There; the Holy Family’s Journey in Egypt,” AUC Press, 2001). |
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| Bilbays | ||
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| According to tradition, at the moment the Holy Family entered the town,
a funeral procession of a widow’s son was just leaving and Jesus felt
compassion for her and raised him from death, a story that resembles the
resurrection of the son of a widow in Naim [Luke 7:11-17]. Bilbays was an
important bishopric in the 4th century. The Church of St. George dates to
the 1960's and was built on a location older churches have stood.
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