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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE LANDS OF MY TOIL: PROF. M. M. NINAN Greek speaking community. It reached as far as modern-day Morocco, where it was enthusiastically embraced by the Berber people. Egypt, bordering Nubia on the north become entirely Christian as early as the beginning of the 4th century. Starting from the end of the 4th century and at the beginning of the 6th century, Christian bishops resided on the island of Phile and Syene (Aswan), hermits probably settled in Nubia and we also have archeologically confirmed presence of Christian graves in that territory. However official acceptance of Christianity as a state religion took place in the second half of the 6th century (in the years 540–580) thanks to missions send by the Byzantine Court The early Christian fathers in Egypt developed a strong monastic tradition. There were hundreds of monasteries throughout the country as well as cells and caves occupied by hermits. An anonymous fourth century writer observed: "There is no town or village in Egypt that is not surrounded by hermitages as if by walls and the people depend on their prayers as if on God himself, through them the world is kept going." Meroe During the 3rd Century many Egyptian Christians fled to Sudan during the persecutions of the Roman emperors Decius (AD 250) and Diocletian (AD 297). Diocletian Persecution The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer, by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1883) A strong Christian community was flourishing in Philae from at least AD 350. Crosses and other Christian objects have been found in the royal tombs of Meroe dating back to the 5th Century. 58
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE LANDS OF MY TOIL: PROF. M. M. NINAN Following the collapse of the Kingdom of Meroe (in about AD 350) three smaller Kingdoms were established - Nubia, Makuria and Alwa. Nobatia in the north, also known as Ballanah, had its capital at Faras,; the central kingdom, Muqurra (Makuria), was centred at Dunqulah, about 13 kilometres south of modern Dunqulah; and Alawa (Alodia), in the heartland of old Meroe, which had its capital at Soba (now a suburb of modern-day Khartoum). The conversion of the Nubians to Christianity started during the reign of Empress Theodora of Byzantine Rome, in the sixth century, through her missionary Presbyter Julian By the 6th century, fifty states had emerged as the political and cultural heirs of the Meroitic Kingdom. www.ancientsudan.org/history_13_christianization.htm One early writer described the conversion of the Nubian king, Bahriya, as the key event: "When Bahriya was converted to Christianity, all the Blacks of Nubia followed him, and he built for them churches throughout the land of Nubia and many monasteries which are still flourishing." (Syrian scholar Ephesus.) According to Ephesus, Queen Thodora wife of the Byzantine emperor Justinian, who unlike her husband fostered Monophysitism. sent the missionary Julian to convert the Nubians. Julian met with the king and princes of the kingdom of Nobatia, in Lower Nubia. The Nubian king converted to Christianity and was baptized. The king then publicly announced his new faith as Christianity and confessed that "He is the one true God, and there is no other beside." 59
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