In his time, the Papal Residence was at the Church of The Holy Virgin Mary and St Mercurius in the Coptic quarter of Cairo.
El-Malik el-Nasser Nasr el-Din Muhammad ibn Qalawun ( الملك الناصر ناصر الدين محمد بن قلاوون), commonly known as Al-Nasir Muhammad ( الناصر محمد), or by his kunya: Abu'l Maali or as Ibn Qalawun (born 1285– died 1341 AD) who was the ninth Mamluk sultan of Egypt.
As many of his relatives and acquaintances started visiting him, he left the place and went to the monastery of the Mule in the Mount Tura to realize his longing for the life of solitude away from people.
Of particular mention was a wave of persecution unleashed by the governor Sharaf el-Din ibn el-Taj, who remained in office for one year and then he died.
In the third year of his papacy (March 1330 AD, 1046 AM), 20 bishops gathered in the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great during Lent to consecrate the Holy Oil of Chrismation (Miron).