“… Watching this elderly man, near the age of seventy, rise daily at four o’clock in the morning to pray with intensity and perseverance, made many feel small in their own eyes by comparison. People would come to the church and find this venerable old man had been praying since dawn. The church was his whole life. His love for the liturgies ran in his veins like his blood. Psalms and prayers were like the air he breathed. It was never beneath his position as the pope to join the chanter of the church counter singing with him the Psalmody. For more than thirty-five years he continued to celebrate the mass daily…”

 – HH Pope Shenouda III on Pope Cyril VI

On the 9th of March every year the Coptic Church celebrates the Feast of this wonderful Saint, A saint who in all humility rejuvenated all of Christianity in Egypt and across the world. This is a short biography on his life which does this wonderful Saint no Justice.

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