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	St. Mary of Egypt
		The account of St. Mary’s life was an oral tradition passed on by monks until St. Sophronius, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, wrote it down in the 6th century.
		Her story was told by a hieromonk, St. Zosimas, who met her in the desert as he followed the tradition of his monastery which was that the fathers would leave the monastery on Forgiveness Sunday to struggle alone in the desert and return on Palm Sunday to celebrate together the Holy Week and Pascha.
		Mary then left the world to live in the desert, obeying a voice that told her she would find glorious peace there.
	www.ukrainian-orthodoxy.org /saints/beauty/stMaryOfEgypt.html (1034 words)

	Mary of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was born in Egypt and was a prostitute in Alexandria from approximately 356 to 373.
		Her vita relates that she was seized with repentance for her sins at the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross after seeing an image of the Virgin Mary and heard a voice that led her to retire to the Egyptian desert to live the rest of her life as a hermit.
		She is known by the long hair that covered her naked body and the three loaves of bread she bought before undertaking her journey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_of_Egypt (195 words)

	Saint Mary of Egypt
		This was Mary's first contact with a human being in the forty- seven years since, led by the Theotokos, she had crossed the Jordan into the barren desert.
		Mary described to him her career as a prostitute for seventeen years on the streets of Alexandria, her conversion in Jerusalem and the experiences of forty-seven years in the desert.
		Later, patriarchs of Constantinople and emperors of Byzantium glorified Saint Mary of Egypt in sermons and hymns.
	archangels7.brinkster.net /Festal__April/Saint_Mary_of_Egypt.htm (1966 words)

	Fr. Stelyios Muksuris -- Committing Sins and Committing to God: A Sermon on St. Mary of Egypt
		Mary was an individual who represented a cross section of the immoral, fallen world of her day, a woman whose powerful conversion experience from a life of prodigality to a life of holiness and purity has been the focus of much admiration among the Orthodox.
		Mary lived during the fourth century A.D. At the tender age of twelve, she relocated with her parents to the prominent metropolitan city of Alexandria, in Egypt, where she lived on her own for seventeen years as a loathsome prostitute.
		For St. Mary of Egypt, it was an "invisible forcefield" at the gates of the Holy Church.
	orthodoxytoday.org /articles7/MuksurisMaryEgypt.php (1721 words)

	Saint Mary of Egypt
		At the doors of the church, at its very threshold, Mary was driven back "by some kind of force." Trying with all her might, she could not enter, although those around her went in with no difficulty at all.
		Praying fervently to the Virgin Mary, with her heart open and clear, Mary begged forgiveness and again sought entry at the church.
		Mary, for her part, was alarmed because of her nakedness, and begged him to lend her his cloak so that she could stand in modesty before him.
	www.antiochian.org /saint_mary_of_egypt (1312 words)

	Mary of Egypt - OrthodoxWiki
		For another seventeen years, Mary was tormented by "wild beasts—mad desires and passions." After these years of temptation, however, she overcame the passions and was led by the Theotokos in all things.
		Mary then received communion and walked back across the Jordan after giving Zosima instructions about his monastery and that he should return to where they first met exactly a year later.
		When he did so, he found Mary's body with a message written on the sand asking him for burial and revealing that she had died immediately after receiving the Holy Mysteries the year before (and thus had been miraculously transported to the spot where she now lay).
	orthodoxwiki.org /Mary_of_Egypt (719 words)

	Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, WA
		Mary had, she confessed, "an irresistible passion for wallowing in the mud".
		This was Mary's first contact with a human being in the forty- seven years since, led by the Theotokos, she had crossed the Jordan into the barren desert.
		Mary described to him her career as a prostitute for seventeen years on the streets of Alexandria, her conversion in Jerusalem and the experiences of forty-seven years in the desert.
	home.iprimus.com.au /xenos/maryegypt.html (2093 words)

	St. Mary of Egypt
		The story of St. Mary of Egypt first circulated among the monastic communities of the Eastern Church in the early sixth century.
		The story of Mary of Egypt as it is written for the church is really three separate stories: The story of Mary's life, the story of the priest Zosimas, and the story of their experience together.
		Mary, the sinful woman, became teacher and giver of grace; Zosimas, the venerable priest and monk, became disciple and suppliant.
	www.copticchurch.net /topics/synexarion/maryofegypt.htm (2736 words)

	Egypt: Gods of Ancient Egypt Main Menu
		Pre-dynastic Egypt had formulated the ideas and beliefs of a "greater being", which was expressed in pictures, but some scholars suggest that "writing" was invented in order to communicate spiritual thoughts to the masses.
		The kings of ancient Egypt were an integral part of religion.
		Some of the stolen gold and silver went into the temple treasuries, but a large portion of it went to the purchase of wood and iron, resources that were not native to Egypt and were most costly.
	www.touregypt.net /gods1.htm (3282 words)

	St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Mission & Monastery
		Mary of Egypt Orthodox Mission and Monastery for women was established in the heart of Cleveland, Ohio.
		Mary of Egypt is in the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh, Archdiocese of America in New York, and Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople.
		Mary of Egypt Orthodox Mission and Monastery has received over the years PROCLAMATIONS from the Mayors of Cleveland, Ohio, from the Governors of Ohio, and from the Secretary of State of Ohio.
	www.saintmaryofegypt.org (527 words)

	Questions about St. Mary of Egypt - Answers only
		The Life of St. Mary of Egypt is read in its entirety during matins on the 6th Thursday of Great Lent.
		Mary's story is such a quintessential display of the power of repentance that the church began reading her story during Great Lent.
		He understood that after partaking of the Mysteries Mary had in one night traversed the distance it had taken the elder 20 days to cover, then had given her soul to God.
	www.orthodox.net /questions/mary_of_egypt_1-a.html (1390 words)

	Old English Mary of Egypt
		By this foliation, the folios of Mary of Egypt are: 25(26v)r, 25(26r)v, 26(56)r, 26(56)v, 27(16)r, 27(16)v, 28(17)r, 28(17)v, 29(15)r, 29(15)v, 30(59)r, and 30(59)v.
		Mary's admission in the Otho version that her life of promiscuity was a source of pleasure to her supports Lees's argument that "the transformation of sexuality into the gift of chastity is the prime component of the female saint's life" (1999 147).
		Gordon Whatley notes that "[t]he prose lives of Mary of Egypt and of Guthlac...begin, not with a translator's apology, but with literal renderings of the Latin prefaces, even where these are in the first person, creating the illusion that one is reading the original itself, rather than the work of an intermediary" (450).
	lib.uky.edu /ETD/ukyengl2001t00018/html/back1.htm (1605 words)

	Mary Sue: Mary Sue Does Egypt
		It was the work of mere moments to convince her uncle that he should go to Egypt as well, which he had had no intention of doing.
		But Mary Sue was determined, and of course he agreed to go, and to take her with him, because he could deny her nothing.
		It was several days ride out to the buried city, but since Mary Sue had been riding all her life, and since she was too much of a lady to perspire, the trip passed easily.
	www.subreality.com /marysue/msde.htm (1466 words)

	Mary of Egypt, Festal Hymns and introductory notes - Monachos.net
		Our Mother St Mary the Egyptian stands as one of the great ascetics of Christendom and a model of the ascetic life for all who would obey Christ's command to leave the ties of the world, take up their cross and follow Him.
		St Mary herself left no written works, no texts and no treatises; but her story is known throughout the world through the words of this life.
		The Life of St Mary of Egypt is often read together with portions of the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete.
	www.monachos.net /library/Mary_of_Egypt,_Festal_Hymns_and_introductory_notes (487 words)

	SAINT MARY OF EGYPT. Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
		We keep today the memory of Saint Mary of Egypt in the gradual progression from glory to glory which Lent is, and which must lead us step by step to facing the supreme glory of the Divine Love crucified, the sacrificial love of the Holy Trinity.
		Saint Mary of Egypt was a sinner, someone whose sin was known to everyone and not to God alone; perhaps she was the only one who was least of all aware of it because sin was her life.
		Mary of Egypt confronted with the Divine absence, with God’s refusal to allow her into His presence, confronted with a shut door within herself felt that unless the door opened, everything was vain.
	www.metropolit-anthony.orc.ru /eng/eng_32.htm (815 words)

	Mary of Egypt, John Tavener
		Precisely because Mary's door was wide open, even though her love was misdirected and distorted, and Zossima's door was closing around him with his pride: 'even though he understood all mysteries', he had not found 'the one thing needful' - the supreme mystery, the humilty essential for love.
		We see the two figures, ikon-like, in parallel lines: Mary whoring without singing words in Alexandria and Zossima verbose and 'stuck' in his world of so-called holiness, with the help of a small group of singing and acting women and men representing the extensions of Mary and Zossima respectively and 'the Voice' unseen and unembodied.
		Mary is led into the desert after travelling to Jerusalem, not as a pilgrim but with the desire for more men on board ship, until she finds she cannot enter the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and gaze upon the True Cross.
	www.schirmer.com /Default.aspx?TabId=2420&State_2874=2&workId_2874=11219 (878 words)

	St. Mary of Egypt — Plinio Correa de Oliveira commentary on the Saint of the Day, April 2 @ TraditionInAction.org
		Mary of Egypt, also called the sinner, lived 47 years in the desert making penance and suffering privations.
		She answered with sententious words proper to the epoch: “Father, forgive me, but when I start to tell you my story you will run from me, as from a snake, for your ears will not be able to bear the vileness of my actions and the air will be contaminated by my impurity.
		I am called Mary and I was born in Egypt.” This introduction has a great literary beauty and reflects the extraordinary valor of her soul.
	www.traditioninaction.org /SOD/j173sd_MaryEgypt_4-02.shtml (2306 words)

	St_Mary_of_Egypt
		Mary was to let herself dry out like a prune, for this was the remedy that she herself devised against her moral rot and decay.
		You've guessed it--before him stood Mary the penitent, but only a truly sharp person would have been able to distinguish her from a man in that state.
		Mary the Egyptian spoke only through the Bible whose meaning she found again spontaneously at the end of her long spiritual quest.
	www.stmarycoptorthodox.org /st-mary-of-egypt.htm (1172 words)

	Egypt
		In the United States, she was director of a national environmental group in New York and a community organizer and crisis counselor in Baltimore, Maryland.
		Mary Bontempo curently resides in Giza at the edge of the desert facing the sphinx.
		Her support staff in Egypt will make sure your trip is safe, protected and full of joy.
	www.marybontempo.org /egypt_trip.htm (336 words)

	The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene
		Mary Magdalene as the consort of Christ, an occult legend that lived into the Middle Ages.
		Importantly, the codex preserves the most complete surviving copy of the Gospel of Mary (as the text is named in the manuscript, though it is clear this named Mary is the person we call Mary of Magdala).
		Two other small fragments of the Gospel of Mary from separate Greek editions were later also unearthed in archaelogical excavations at Oxyrhynchus in Northern Egypt.
	www.gnosis.org /library/marygosp.htm (1498 words)

	On Orthodox Veneration of the Mary
		Mary enjoyed great respect; at Cana She was an honored guest at the wedding, and even when Her Son was condemned, no one allowed himself to ridicule or censure His Mother.
		Mary is not God, and did not receive a body from heaven, but from the joining of man and woman; and according to the promise, like Isaac, She was prepared to take part in the Divine Economy.
		Glorifying the immaculateness of the Virgin Mary and the manful bearing of sorrows in Her earthly life, the Fathers of the Church, on the other hand, reject the idea that She was an intermediary between God and men in the sense of the joint Redemption by Them of the human race.
	www.stmaryofegypt.org /library/st_john_maximovich/on_veneration_of_the_theotokos.htm (10778 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of April 2
		Mary was to let herself dry out like a prune, for this was the remedy that she herself devised against her moral rot and decay.
		Mary the Egyptian spoke only through the Bible whose meaning she found again spontaneously at the end of her long spiritual quest.
		Her image was used by artists from the 12th century on carved capitals, in stained glass in the cathedrals of Chartres, Bourges, and Auxerre (13th c.), and in paintings and sculptures of the later Middle Ages (Farmer).
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0402.htm (4563 words)

	The Lives of the Saints-Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia
		After venerating the Holy Cross, Mary returned to the ikon to thank the Theotokos for the mercy and grace given her.
		As she stood in front of the ikon, Mary heard a mysterious voice, instructing her to cross the Jordan.
		Later, patriarchs of Constantinople and emperors of Byzantium glorified Saint Mary of Egypt in sermons and hymns.
	home.it.net.au /~jgrapsas/pages/maryegyp.htm (1983 words)

	A-9.St.Mary of Egypt
		Mary of Egypt reposed in the desert on April 1, 522.
		It is Elder Zosimas' account of St. Mary's Life, later written down by St. Sophronius, that is appointed to be read during the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete for Thursday of the Fifth Week of the Great Fast/Lent, while the Fifth Sunday of the Great Fast is also dedicated to her.
		As with all of these audio recordings of prayers, this cassette is ideal for commuters, the sight-impaired, sick, elderly, home-bound, and for anyone who wishes to bring more prayer into his or her life.
	www.firebirdvideos.com /audios/A-9maryofegypt.htm (363 words)

	Sarx » Sunday of St Mary of Egypt
		THE STORY OF St Mary of Egypt has always had a special appeal to me because of my history.
		Mary turns all that around, with no education, with no clergy to guide her, with no church in which to worship.
		St Mary shows us that it is possible even in to-day’s world, where we find so many options to feed the flesh that we almost - were it possible - forget the soul.
	raphael.doxos.com /2007/03/25/sunday-of-st-mary-of-egypt (1038 words)

	Mary's Icon Miraculous Egypt
		ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) -- Thousands of Egyptians and some foreigners have been flocking to this southern Egyptian city in recent weeks where residents say they've seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary and a flock of exceptionally large, white pigeons in an inexplicable shining light.
		Outside the church, hopeful pilgrims each night chant "Come Mary, Come," or "Your Light is on the Cross," hoping to beseech the Virgin Mary to appear between the two towers of the church, as she has done the previous nights, they say.
		At noon, the pontiff pronounced the act of entrustment of all humanity to the Virgin Mary at the dawn of the third millennium.
	home1.gte.net /res93apy/id3.html (3002 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint Mary of Egypt
		At the early age of twelve Mary left her home and came to Alexandria, where for upwards of seventeen years she led a life of public prostitution.
		That same evening Mary reached the Jordan and received Holy Communion in a
		time Mary appeared on the eastern bank of the river, and having made the sign of the cross, walked upon the waters to the western side.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09763a.htm (869 words)

	Questions about St. Mary of Egypt
		Mary was forced by the Abba to tell her story to him.
		Mary's difficulties in the desert are extremely instructive for us.
		She was 12 when she left her parents to go to Alexandria, and she lived as a prostitute until she was 30.
	www.orthodox.net /questions/mary_of_egypt_1.html (1543 words)

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