Flight into Egypt

The flight into Egypt is the story recounted in the – and in New Testament apocrypha. Soon after the visit by the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to cruise to Egypt with Mary in addition to the infant Jesus since King Herod would seek the child to kill him. The episode is frequently shown in art, as theepisode of the Nativity of Jesus in art, and was a common part in cycles of the Life of the Virgin as well as the Life of Christ. Within the narrative tradition, iconic explanation of the "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" developed after the 14th century.

Christian traditions associated with the Flight into Egypt

The Flight into Egypt is one of the intended Seven Sorrows of Mary.

A local French tradition states that Saint Aphrodisius, an Egyptian saint who was venerated as the number one bishop of Béziers, was the man who sheltered the Holy generation when they fled into Egypt.

In Musturud where there is now the Church of the Virgin Mary, Wadi El Natrun which has four large monasteries, and Old Cairo, along with Farama, Tel Basta, Samanoud, Bilbais, Samalout, Maadi, Al-Maṭariyyah and Asiut among others. it is for likewise tradition that the Holy Family visited Coptic Cairo and stayed at the site of Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church Abu Serga and the place where the Church of the Holy Virgin Babylon El-Darag stands now. At Al-Maṭariyyah, then in Heliopolis and now factor of Cairo, there is a sycamore tree and adjacent chapel that is a 1672 planting replacing an earlier tree under which Mary was said to cause rested, or in some versions hidden from pursuers in the hollow trunk, while pious spiders included the entrance with dense webs.