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His Holiness Pope Kyrillos (Cyril) VI (Atta) of Alexandria (transliterated Kyrellos, or Kirellos), born Azer Atta (August 2, – March 9, ), was Coptic Orthodox Pope from .

Categories Recent Discussions. Categories All Categories March edited December in Coptic Orthodox Church. He was a holy man who excelled first and foremost in spiritual virtue by dedicating his soul to the life of fasting and prayer; this inner lifestyle was steadfastly and incessantly maintained throughout his whole life regardless of changing circumstances and conditions.

Various gifts were bestowed upon him by The Goodness and Grace of our Lord, including prescience, clairvoyance, bilocation, and the ability to heal the sick, though it was the most important of gifts: Love, which truly earned this Holy man the title of Saint. What follows is a short, simple, very basic and ultimately insufficient biography - which hence doesn't really do much justice to the amazing life and numerous qualities of this Saint - thus I recommend that the interested reader check the "Further Readings" section at the bottom of this post, for a more indepth understanding of the fruits and virtues of this Saint - I recommend the two books "The Fruits of Love" and "Spiritual Leadership" - which are available online for free see the list as a good initial start Pope St Kyrillos with the relics of St Mark the Evengelist The Apparition of the Theotokos over St Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church in Zeitoun He was born in under the name Aza Ater, and at the age of twenty-eight he was drawn to the monastic life, and was consequently ordained a monk under the name of his patron Saint, St Menas the Martyr.

His spiritual vigilance and rigorous asceticism lead him to desire and request a life of complete solitude only two years after entering monasticism. The attempts of many to dissuade him from taking this difficult path failed, and he ultimately moved into a very dangerously situated and abandoned windmill in El-Moukatam Mountain at the outskirts of Cairo.

Chapel of st pope kyrillos the sixth This iconographic program was designed to invite the worshipper to enter the depths of true Coptic Orthodox worship, through a program entirely .

This windmill was located many miles from the nearest city, and it was known to be inhabited by dangerous scorpions and snakes. It is this place that St Kyrillos VI found to be the ideal place to pray and contemplate on the great Love he had for our Saviour. Pope St Kyrillos, humbled on a donkey. Pope St Kyrillos' windmill.