372:(Arabic القديس ميصائيل السائح, al-Qiddis Mīṣā'īl as-Sa'ih) at the time of the monastery abbot St. Isaac, the successor of St. Samuel, asked the twelve-year-old Misael to join the monastery as a monk. His father no longer believed in God because no children were given him. An old monk advised him to return to the Christian faith. The father, who was now strictly faithful, did as the monk charged him, and his wife bore him a son whom they called Misael. At the age of six, his parents died and Bishop Athanasius drew him up, sent him to school, and administered the paternal inheritance. Misael predicted the rise of famine, and the monastery-chief was not to be afraid of the events. When the famine broke out, poor peasants went against the monastery because they suspected that they were eating food here. Soldiers had to go against the riot of the peasants. Misael spoke to the struggling men and went away with them. He ordered the monastery's priest to take precaution against a renewed famine. A year later a similar hardship was to take place. This time the Governor sent soldiers to confiscate the grain of the monastery. These soldiers, however, were driven out shortly afterwards by other warriors, who gave themselves as hermits from the desert, among them Misael. These ascetics rejected any reward. Misael, however, asked the monastery supervisor Isaac to demand the paternal inheritance of Bishop Athanasius, in order to be able to build a church in his name with money. The church was built on the 13th Kiahk in the presence of St. Misael and his hermits. Misael prophesied to the convent-priest Isaac that he, Misael, would die in the following year. To the west of the staircase to el-Qaṣr is the only surviving weir and residential tower. He could be reached via a drawbridge on the second floor. It probably dates back to the 6th century. Once there were four such towers in the monastery. Two relics are placed in two cells on the east side of the courtyard. In one of the 7 cells with the relics the bodies of the father are St. Bisada (Arabic الأنبا بسادة, al-anba Bisāda) and father St. Dumadius (Arabic الأنبا دوماديوس, al-anba Dūmādiyūs). Both were important monks and builders of the Samuel Monastery after his re-colonization.
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290:(1364-1442), there are hardly any other sources. In his time the monastery was still inhabited. Al-Maqrizi mentioned two of the four towers and two sources. A rather unusual note on the monastery can be found in a treasure-digging book from the 15th century, the "Book of buried pearls and valuable secrets for hints of hiding places, finds and treasuries."
332:(1905-1973) visited the monastery in June 1942 and in October 1944 and gave a description of the crypt, the new buildings of the 19th/20th century. Century or the ornamental and floral-decorated stone fragments. At present, about one hundred monks live in the monastery, which operate in the surrounding countryside of the monastery agriculture.
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Relics of the fathers St. Bisada and St. Dumadius In the other cell are the relics of the corpse, personal objects and photos from the life of St. Father
Andraus of Samueliten (Arabic: القديس أبونا أندراوس الصموئيلي, al-Qiddis Abuna Andraus as Ṣamū'īlī). Andraus was established in 1887 in the village
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Battista: Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations in Egypt and Nubia; And of a journey to the coast of the Red Sea, in search of the ancient Berenice and another to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon . London: Murray, 1820, p.
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The Church of the Virgin Mary is the youngest church and was erected in 1958 on the site of a former church. The three-nave church, about 20 meters long from the west to the east, is crowned by twelve domes. In the east of the church there are three helices, altar rooms, for
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whose steeple and domes surpass the monastery walls, is a small door to the monastery. When one enters the monastery and the church of the Virgin Mary circling in the counterclockwise direction, one arrives at a 4 small yard. In the north of the courtyard is the entrance to the church of St. Virgo,
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formed a monastic community. From the life story of St. Samuel, who was written by his successor Isaak, can be seen that he came upon a deserted church and restored the church and the monk's cells. He built a new church for the saint. First income was obtained with the sale of basket-ware. The
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Armenian historian Abu el-Makarim. One of the churches was
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245:: Ⲕⲁⲗⲁⲙⲱⲛ, Kalamōn) is probably derived from the Greek word Κάλαμος, Kalamos. Behind it lies reeds, which were present in the marshy environment of the monastery. Slightly cut it can be used as a writing instrument. But it can also be used for the production of wicker.
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Cailliaud, Frédéric: Voyage a Meroe, au fleuve blanc, au-delà de Fâzoql dans le midi du
Royaume de Sennar, a Syouah et dans cinq autres oasis ... Tome I . Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1826, p. 33.
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297:(1778-1823) was the first European in 1819 to visit the now manless monastery and gave a description of the catacombs church, today's crypt. He visited the monastery on his return from
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north, te Holy Virgin Mary and St. George. The altar rooms are also crowned by a dome. On the north wall are the relics of Sts Samuel the Confessor and St. Apollo.
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