Abdel Messih El-Makari

Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria testified as to his holiness and asceticism.

[1] Abdel Messih El-Makari was born in 1892 in the village of Abou Shehata, Matai district, El-Menya governorate, Egypt.

[1] As a young adult, El-Makari left his home town for the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in el-Qalamun mountain.

[2] His father later relented and allowed him to join Monastery of Saint Macarius in the desert of Scetes (Wadi El-Natrun), becoming a monk.

It is said that he had the gifts of prescience, discerning of spirits and healing the sick.