St. Susan

[Mary Naeem]

القديسة سوزان St. Susan



The birth

Born in the year 427 m Arzanin located in the country in the Odessa region of Al Raha of a noble family, and it named Susan, which means flower lily or Sosa. Rabbani Her parents raising real Christian, accustomed to small start and terminate day praying and were continuing to go to church, and criticism of the holy mysteries constantly. Susan's life was bright and its kind and modest and love for the poor and needy are the subject of admiration and her parents who had forecast a bright future of my soul.


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One day Susan called from her parents to go to Jerusalem to worship at the Tomb of sincere and scramble from the holy places, and requested to enter into one of the monasteries and be accompanied by virgins saints.

This request was met with strong opposition because of their age, are either silent and took pray for this topic warmly.

Susan is contemplating how to travel to Jerusalem, and in one day and found a convoy of men and women are going to ask him to go with them before and went with them. After the Blessed everybody holy places and wanted to return to their country, asked Susan to return with them because they can not be left alone in these places away from her hometown, but they managed their disappearance. The st. ask monasteries such holy places, we know that there is a monastery for virgin in the area between La Scala and Gaza Turn there.

I met President Susan mother and asked to be admitted to the monastery, allowing them to stay with them to the Lord and want to know is one of her hometown to tell her parents what happened to them. From that time, Susan started practicing on the lives of Asceticism and obedience and acts of virtue, while the mothers were trying injunction that this young girl so as not to rush in Zahedan, but moving quietly and bizarre. Susan was vigilant and continue standing in the corner of a room along the night praying and flying Altsabih and Psalms. As in the daytime was carried out as required without grumbling, did not speak unless asked, and within words and simple and quiet.


The Cape St. Mtateh always been tried before in the face of woman, and the difficulty of the sisters who look at me, no laughs never did cause pain to someone, but they have set a good example of both see it, even admire all of those girls who were doubting their acceptance in the middle of the small age.

Going to Egypt

Passed ten years ago and held compound Kgaydaunay year 451 A.D., and one church split into two parts, and the intervention of the Christian emperors of the victorious team against team, even by force of arms and intimidation and torture. Dir virgins did not escape from the oppression of this Kgaydonyen because they did agree to the decisions of this compound. Military intervention in the convent and started to threaten the nuns, mothers suffering most, if not subjected to the decisions, subject Many fear from the brutality of these wicked, Susan, decided either to escape and get out of the monastery, with deviated and five nuns. But Susan tell her frankly that she would not go to the monastery but wants to unite in the desert, and requested them to looking for a monastery or elsewhere, but they refused to leave. Tell her frankly that she wants to go to Egypt, where the True faith and courage in confronting those Egyptians sinister campaign to be subjected to the decisions Kgaydaunay compound. I went to the beach and riding a ship sailing to Alexandria.

The ship arrived at Alexandria, we continue them and went to Maruit and senior body of the martyr St. Mena, and found her there was a village outside this region are invited Mendes Mendis next to the ruins and unfit for habitation. Went there and found archaeological tower control tower was working against the barbarians, which entered the five nuns and agreed with them and Susan them to arrange the place and clean it to live. The idea of work is fit for them so amenable, and appointed them to the Lord of the village of supplies given to take hands and sell it and bring strengths daily.

Irreducibility

After a period of St. Susan found all underground opted for housing and unite them, and nuns were attending to one a week, after urging many allowed them to bring a jar of water and some dry break bread every few days.

Monk's brother Samuel believer Susan

Sawsan's brother was a priest in one of the convents of Palestine and called Samuel, his sister heard about it in the desert Maruit, Urban and his fellow monks are willing to sit in a place far from the bickering and religious persecution that occurred because of Kgaydaunay compound and found that this area suitable for them.

Maruit went to his sister and met with Samuel attributable together words grace, and he asked her to live with his brothers monks neighbourliness, Benoit fence around the tower inhabited by nuns, and then built their own monasteries near this region. The mother of St. Susan believer in a cave, and was visiting the monastery nuns each term to check on fellow nuns, and monks if they learned Kaddoumi also attending the surrender outside the door of Salem and Itbarcn them and take their words and teachings to support them in their lives. God has given talent to cure diseases, physical and spiritual, and after that I stayed in this place more than fifteen years while safely.

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