Life and mission of Jesus
The Flight into Egypt of the Holy Family
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Warned in a dream by an angel, Joseph takes the Child and his mother and flees into Egypt to escape Herod. The Holy Family stays there until the king's death, fulfilling the prophet's word: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
References: Matthew 2:13-15 and 19-21; Hosea 11:1; Isaiah 19:1 and 19:19.
For the Coptic Church this sojourn is a unique blessing: Egypt is the land that welcomed the Lord as a child. Armia Elkatcha places the Holy Family at the heart of a great medallion, before the pyramids, and surrounds it with the stages of the journey as Coptic tradition has remembered them, up to the dream announcing the return.
Further reading
On Coptipedia, the Coptic encyclopedia (in French)
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