Claude Sicard

Father Claude Sicard (1677–1726) was a French Jesuit priest, and an early modern visitor to Egypt, between 1708 and 1712.

Sicard was a scholar and at the age of 22 was a professor in the seminary at Lyon.

His aim was to convert Egypt's Coptic Christians to Roman Catholicism.

He ate only vegetables and conformed to the Egyptian way of living for nine successive years.

[3] Sicard commented that "Its remains are magnificent and more extensive than it is possible to imagine.