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Mary of Egypt (anonymous, 16th century). National Museum of Ecuador, Quito. The Unknown Masterpiece (1831), a novella by Balzac, contains a long description of a portrait of Mary of Egypt "undressing in order to pay her passage to Jerusalem". Nalo Hopkinson's science fiction novel, The Salt Roads, also features Mary of Egypt and takes a ...
Saint Mary of Egypt is an oil on canvas painting of the 4th century ascetic saint Mary of Egypt by José de Ribera, executed in 1641. It is now in the Musée Fabre in Montpellier , which acquired it in 1837.
[1] [2] The titular saint, Mary of Egypt, had history of repenting a life of lust and prostitution, and converting herself into a saintly hermit. The function of the convent as a home for fallen women was later pursued mostly by Santa Maria Maddalena , and this church became attached to a small nunnery for aristocratic women.
Maria egiziaca (Saint Mary of Egypt) is an opera in a single three-episode act by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi.The libretto, by Claudio Guastalla, is based on a Medieval life of Saint Mary of Egypt, contained in the translation into the vernacular of the Vitae Patrum written by Domenico Cavalca.
Pages in category "Titles of Mary, mother of Jesus" ... Mary of the Flight into Egypt; Mary, Untier of Knots; Mary, Help of Christians; Mary, Mediatrix of All Grace;
Our Lord's Mother visits Egypt in 1968 & 1969. Publisher Dar el Alam el Arabi. Available online; Francis Johnston (1980). When Millions Saw Mary. Augustine Publishing Co. ISBN 0-85172-631-3 also available online; Youssef G. Kamell/ John P. Jackson/ Rebecca S. Jackson (1996): A Lady of Light Appears in Egypt. The story of Zeitoun. St. Mark's ...
The flight into Egypt is a story recounted in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:13–23) and in New Testament apocrypha.Soon after the visit by the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee to Egypt with Mary and the infant Jesus since King Herod would seek the child to kill him.
All that is known of Zosimas' life comes from the Vita of St. Mary of Egypt, [5] recorded by Sophronius, who was the Patriarch of Jerusalem from 634 to 638. Sophronius based his work on oral tradition he had heard from monks in Palestine.