Old Coptic Icons
Old Icons from the pre-Neo-Coptic period (i.e. pre 1960's)
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st.ammon hermit of nitria.. THIS great saint was born in Egypt of a rich and noble family. At the age of twenty-two years his tutors and trustees obliged him to marry, in the year 308; but, on the day of his marriage, he read to his wife what St. Paul has written in commendation of the holy state of virginity, by which she was easily persuaded to consent to their making a mutual vow of perpetual continence. They lived together eighteen years under the same roof in perfect continency;
AR Michael