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el-Fant esch-Sharqīya · ‏الفنت الشرقية‎
GovernorateBeni Suef
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21.503 (2006)
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El-Fant or el-Fant esch-Sharqiya, ‏الفنت الشرقية‎, al-Fant al-Sharqīya, „the eastern el-Fant“,[1] is a egyptian Village in the south of the governorate Beni Suef. In this village becomes the priest and martyr Aba / Apa Klog, Kolluthus, venerated in the church consecrated to him and on pilgrimages.

background

El-Fant village map

location

The village of el-Fant is located on the west bank of the Nile between el-Faschn in the north and Maghāgha in the south, about 42 kilometers southwest of Beni Suef and 12 kilometers north of Maghāgha. The village belongs to the Coptic diocese of Beni Suef. In 2006 there were around 21,500 residents in this village. In the 1980s there were around 200 Christian families among them.

history

Like the German German theologian and coptologist Otto Meinardus (1925–2005), the Coptic Church knows at least four important Christians by the name of Kolluthus. In addition to the priest and martyr Abā / Apa Klōǧ, the heretical presbyter Kolluthus Alexandria (4th century), a poet from Asyūṭ (6th century) and the doctor and martyr from Antinoe (4th century). The latter is one of the most popular saints of the Coptic Church.

The Ethiopian Synaxar, a martyrology, contains a detailed description of the saint's life on 20 Ṭĕr, the day of his martyrdom.

According to the local tradition, Abā / Apa Klōǧ, Arabic:أبا كلوج‎, Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲕⲗⲟ ϫ, pronounced Klodsch, born in the middle of the third century. He came from a wealthy family. Side parents were Dioscorus and Euphymia. After four years of study, he knew the New Testament at the age of twelve, with the exception of the Apocalypse,[2] and the psalter by heart. Abā / Apa Klōǧ were ascribed numerous miracles such as healing injuries from scorpion stings and snakebites, whereupon he was ordained a priest against his will - as it contradicted his idea of ​​an ascetic life. During the time of the Diocletian persecution of Christians, he was also able to raise the son of the Roman governor Arianos from death, but this did not help him because he did not want to renounce Christianity. In 304 he was executed along with 809 Christians. In his last prayer he asked God: “God, Jesus Christ, give grace to my bones and grant healing and recovery from their illness to every suffering and sick person who enters this church and prays in your name before my bones. ... And everyone who sacrifices incense, ointment, oil or wine here, reward him in your heavenly realm. ... "[3]

There is no evidence of the cult or relics of the Abā / Apa Klōǧ until the Middle Ages. The Coptic writer Abū el-Makārim (* before 1160; † after 1190) did not mention the place el-Fant. However, Meinardus believed that those of Abū el-Makārim in Dalāṣ located Kolluthus Church[4] could have stood here in el-Fant. The Dominican Johann Michael Wansleben (1635–1679), who had traveled through Egypt in 1664, was the first European to report one on his list of churches Clodii Church in el-Fent on the west side of the Nile.[5][6] The English Egyptologist Somers Clarke (1841–1926) also mentioned this church of the Apkilûg of al-Fant in 1912.[7] Local Christians also reported that the martyr was once buried under the altar of the old church.

getting there

In the street

El-Fant can be reached via highway 02 from Beni Suef or el-Minyā. About the 1 el Fant bridge(28 ° 44 '56 "N.30 ° 52 ′ 6 ″ E) one arrives in the village.

By train

There is that in the west of the village 2 El Fant train station on the route Cairo-Aswan, where regional trains stop.

mobility

The streets are wide enough to be able to get to the church and other facilities in the village by car. The church of Apa Klog is about one kilometer northeast of the train station and can also be reached on foot.

Tourist Attractions

1  Church of St. Abā Klōǧ (‏كنيسة القديس العظيم أبا كلوج القس‎, Kanīsat al-Qiddīs al-ʿAẓīm Abā Klōǧ al-Qass, Church of St. Kolluthus). (28 ° 45 ′ 10 ″ N.30 ° 52 ′ 39 ″ E)
On the site of today's church from 1956, there is said to have been a church since the 3rd century. Today's church has two bell towers and has three naves with a dome in the central nave. A U-shaped gallery is located above the side aisles and the west side. The dome in the central nave shows Jesus Christ and in the corners the portraits of the four evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The altars for the Archangel Gabriel, Aba Klōǧ (Kolluthus) and St. Jungfrau are separated from the community room by a wooden screen wall. On the screen wall there are icons of the twelve apostles in the upper row and below six icons, the v. l. No. the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, St. Virgin and Jesus, St. Show Geist and Aba Klōǧ. Above the screen is an icon with the Last Supper and the cross. The middle sanctuary is domed and has a painting of the enthroned Jesus on the back.
On the side and back walls there are numerous other icons, three on top of each other, with scenes from the life of Christ and icons of various saints. The church has a locked cabinet on the back wall with several old manuscripts and a shrine with the relics of Saint Aba Klog, which are surrounded by a white cloth cover with the image of the saint. The reliquary includes one of the few icons of the saint and an Arabic manuscript from 1475 AT THE (1758/1759), which contains biographical information on Aba Klog and eleven other martyrs.

2  Great mosque(28 ° 45 ′ 1 ″ N.30 ° 52 ′ 22 ″ E)

activities

Every year on January 28th (20th Tūba), the day of his martyrdom, and on June 27 (20th Baūna), the day of the consecration of the church, pilgrimages in honor of St. Kolluthus instead.

shop

kitchen

Restaurants can be found in Beni Suef or el-Minyā.

accommodation

Accommodation is available in Beni Suef or el-Minyā.

health

There are hospitals and pharmacies in Beni Suef and el-Minyā.

Practical advice

trips

The visit to the village of el-Fant can be combined with that of the city Bibā connect.

literature

  • Abā / Apa Klōǧ
    • Meinardus, Otto F.A.: The "silverless" doctors of the Copts. In:Kemet: the black country; Egypt; a magazine for friends of Egypt, ISSN0943-5972, Vol.8,2 (1999), Pp. 48-50.
    • Meinardus, Otto F.A.: A Coptic Anargyros: St. Colluthus. In:Studia Orientalia Christiana / Collectanea, Vol.14 (1970), Pp. 365-375, doi:10.1484 / J.SOCC.3.102.
    • Meinardus, Otto F.A.: A Note on Apa Klog of al-Fant. In:Coptologia: an international journal of coptology and egyptology, ISSN0229-1134, Vol.7 (1986), Pp. 38-43.
  • Ethiopian synaxar

Web links

  • Coptic Synaxarium (Martyrologium) for 20. Tūba (Coptic Orthodox Church Network)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑To differentiate: in the governorate there is still the village el-Fant el-Gharbiya, the "western el-Fant".
  2. ↑In the Eastern Church, the apostolic origin of the Apocalypse was questioned as early as the 4th century.
  3. ↑Translation after Meinardus.
  4. ↑[Abū al-Makārim]; Evetts, B [asil] T [homas] A [lfred] (ed., Transl.); Butler, Alfred J [oshua]: The churches and monasteries of Egypt and some neighboring countries attributed to Abû Sâliḥ, the Armenian. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895, P. 254 f. Various reprints, e.g. B. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-9715986-7-6 . Fol. 91.a, 91.b.
  5. ↑Wansleb, Johann Michael ; Paulus, H.E.G. (Ed.): Johann Michael Wansleb’s previously unprinted description of Egypt in 1664. Jena: Cuno, 1794, Collection of the strangest journeys to the Orient; 3, Pp. 1–122, especially p. 90.
  6. ↑Jürgen Horn believed that a saint named Claudius was hiding behind Clodii. Please refer: Horn, Jürgen: Studies on the Martyrs of Northern Upper Egypt; 2: Martyrs and Saints of the XI. to XIV. Upper Egyptian Gaues: a contribution to the Topographia Christiana of Egypt. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1992, Göttingen Orient Research: GOF; 15.2, ISBN 978-3-447-03087-8 , Pp. 59, 105.
  7. ↑Clarke, Somers: Christian antiquities in the Nile Valley: a contribution towards the study of the ancient churches. Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1912, P. 206.
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