Saturday 16/November/2024 – 02:13 AM
Amid loud cheers in Deir Rizeigat, Governorate LuxorOh, George, your secret, your secret. The visitors celebrated with a Margaret cake, which is approximately 5 meters long and presented by Nader Ayoub Mina, a resident of the governorate, as a gift to the visitors during the celebration. It is an annual tradition carried out by fans of the martyr George to increase joy and happiness.
A 5-meter-long cake at the end of the celebrations of the St. George Rizeigat Monastery in Luxor
This came in the presence and blessing of His Eminence Bishop Markos, Metropolitan of Shubra El Kheima and the papal vicar of the monastery, His Eminence Bishop Youannis, the priests and monks, and a large number of celebrants around the cake, which was decorated with pictures of the great martyr Mar Girgis and Pope Tawadros II, and pictures of members of the papal committee supervising the monastery’s celebrations.
This comes in celebration of the anniversary of the dedication of the first church in the name of the martyr George in the city of Lod in Palestine, in his Al-Amer monastery in the Rizeigat, west of Luxor Governorate.
Every year in November
The celebration of this occasion is held every year in the month of November in the presence of hundreds of thousands of citizens from various governorates, in addition to delegations from various countries. This year, it was decided to limit the celebration to daily visits only.
The Monastery of St. George in the Rizeigat is witnessing strict security measures by police forces around the monastery inside and outside and at its main and subsidiary doors to ascertain the identities of the participants in the celebrations, in addition to an expanded deployment of the Central Security Forces, Public Security, and explosives experts throughout the monastery and the main axes, to detect weapons and metals, and prevent… Parking.
