The story of the martyrdom of the most famous saints of Upper Egypt .. The mother Dolgi and her four children were martyred at the hands of the Roman governor after announcing their Christianity and encouraging their mother to them .. They were buried in

The story of a heroine of the Coptic heroes in the third century AD, which is the most famous saint of Upper Egypt in Esna, which is “Mother Dolgi”, who was serious about her four children, “Pictures, Hermann, Abanova and Shantas” and encouraged them to confront the Roman tyrants, where they stood in front of the Romanian governor of Ariana at the time when he visited the city of Esna, and he cut off their heads and killed their mother after them and was buried in their house The current church in Esna.

With the arrival of a month of Basnes from the Egyptian Agricultural Coptic months, the Copts of Esna, south of Luxor Governorate, are organizing the celebration of the annual Eid for the martyrdom of Mother Dollaji and her four children, in her church in the center of Esna, under the patronage and in the presence of the skyworth The celebration began with the terrace of His Eminence, the Eve, and a group of priests and monks participated with him, and during the eve of the celebration of the annual holiday, the tube that contains the remains of the mother and her four children is performed, and the circumambulation of the wooden cabin is drawn by the mother Dolgi and her four children inside the church, and it is involved in the praise of the half of the night, and this is followed Wednesday, to remember their martyrdom feast.

For his part, St. Joaqim, the Bishop of Esna and Armant, says that the mother church is located in the city of Esna, which is an important religious shrine that the people come from all over Egypt and even the whole world, as this place has a historical story and monitors that mother who has seriously seriously and her children in adherence and redemption for her religion, at the end of the third century AD and the beginning of the fourth century, Esna was subjected to the Roman persecution when the governor came “Arianos”, the governor of Ansina, to Upper Egypt in the era of the tyrant Emperor Diocletian, to see the extent of the implementation of the Emperor’s decrees, and upon entering the city of Esna, he met four boys of siblings, who are pictures, pyramids, Abanova and Shantas, so he stopped them and ordered them to walk with him to prostrate to idolatry, but the boys were father and declared their Christian With torment to death.

And St. Joaqim adds that the story recounts that when the mother turned Dolgi, she went quickly to their place, and in front of the governor she was encouraging and strengthened, and Arianos filled anger and ordered to behead, that her children slaughtered on her knees one after the other and finally ordered her head beheading, and that was the day of 6 Basc (from the Egyptian Coptic “agricultural”) corresponding to May 14) Their bodies and wrapped them in the coffins are expensive and buried them in the house in which they lived in the place of the Church currently, and the level was below that church and eleven ladders were descended according to the narration of the people who lived My Republic of the Church in 1973, demolition and construction, and the building permit was obtained on 12/14/2006, on 10/20/2007 AD.

It is noteworthy that the mother martyr Dolgi and her four children are the first martyrs of the city of Esna and celebrated their Day 6 Bishcas every year, and the Triangle of Mercy, Pope Shenouda III, inaugurated the church after its construction and renewal on October 20, 2007, where the mother was established in the city of Esna in which the chair of the Episcopal was from the time of St. Ammonius, the bishop of Esna, and the mother is considered one of the most famous saint of Upper Egypt, Which demonstrated to the world that the love of Christ is not shared by any of the materials or malls, so she was a pre -eminence not only for this city, but to the whole world, and she was a widow and had four children: Suritan, Hermann, Abanova and Shantas and they were working in agriculture, and history states that it was rich and distributed what she had of money to the poor and the needy, and this lady was followed by the word of God. Her heart is loving to everyone, until her children liken her constant in faith, and they are not destroyed by a threat or a feast.

And that happened on the day that Diocletian, the tyrant, the governor, “Arianos”, sent to Ansina to exterminate Christians in all the cities of Upper Egypt and eliminate their priests and their monks, and the Esna region was the focus He tests through them the extent of Christianity penetration in that country, so he ordered them to prostrate to idols, and the boys refused with all strength, determination and faith, so he tried with them with temptation, and he did not succeed, so he threatened them and threatens them to catch them forms of torture and pain, and despite all this, they stood before him, declaring their faith in Christ, and it is only moments until the news flew to their mother. The field where her four children were standing in the presence of the governor, and the governor believed that she would discourage them from their faith, but he was surprised by her and her confirmation in faith, declaring her Christianity openly in front of the governor, who was full of anger and ordered to throw them all in prison.

In prison, the Virgin Mary appeared for them in the morning, and she began to encourage them and tell them that Jesus had prepared an eternal place for them in the kingdom of the heavens, and soon and the governor called them again and asked them to evaporate the pagan deities. We are Christians.

History states that the governor ordered the slaughter of her children on her knees one by one while he was waiting for the moment of her retreat, but her strong faith and her children were out of all torture and every cruelty, and after her children slaughtered in front of her eyes, she cut off her head while she was in the midst of her prayers and her recitation of Christ, and their holy bodies are still preserved in the church that bears the name of Luxor in the city of Luxor Their martyrdom every year on the sixth day of the month of Bashcissism every year, and it is worth noting that it is Annas Yoanous, Bishop of Esna, who wrote about the biography of the great martyr Dolgi and her four children.

Celebrating the death of the mother of Dolgi and her four children in Esna

Celebrating the death of the mother of Dolgi and her four children

The annual prayers in the mother church, Dolgi, Esna

A part of the celebration of the martyrdom of Mother Dolgi and her four children

A side of the paintings inside the mother church, Dolgi, Esna

The remains of the mother Dollaji and her four children in their church in Esna

The prayers of the Mother’s Mother’s Mother’s Certification and her four children

Expressive image of the mother of Dolgi and her four sons on the church building

The joy of celebrating the martyrdom of the mother of Dolgi and her four children

Annual celebrations activities and the remains of the remains of the mother and her four children

The story of the martyrdom of Mother Dolgi and her four -month -old children

Mother’s Church Dolgi in the city of Esna and its historical story

The Mother’s Historical Church Building in Esna

Mother’s remains of Dollaji and her four children in Esna

The Mother’s Church site in Esna from the top