the Holy Family moved in a southerly direction, reaching the modern Cairo suburb of Maadi which, in earliest Pharaonic times was an outlying district of Memphis, the capital of Egypt then; and, at ...
Barbara - Old Cairo Here, too, it is useful to list the sites which visitors to the Fortress of Babylon section of Old Cairo take in: The Church of Abu Serga and the Crypt of the Holy Family beneath ...
The theme of the Holy Family attended by an angel while they rested on their flight into Egypt from Herod was a popular one in the Catholic devotional art of the Counter Reformation. It invites us to ...