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| The foot of the Eastern Mountain that looks over old Cairo was the place chosen by GOD for Fr. Mina El Baramousy |
| to continue the life of loneliness he started in Wadi El Natroun . He lived there in a wind mill that had no roof and no door . Vermins and reptiles shared his company , where he slept on sand and pebbles like Jacob when he escaped from evil . The place was surrounded by wilderness , silence and darkness .
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Even after making a roof and a door for the mill , nobody ever dared to live there alone , as he would be threatened by several dangers . How did Fr. Mina manage to live there for years ? God was with him , offering him protection and guidance . Vermins never opened a mouth and wild animals became tamed . God granted him peace .
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There in no doubt that while the monk , Fr. Mina the Solitary ( Pope Kyrillos VI ) was in the mill , he witnessed great divine mysteries , no wonder that he was always ( even after he became Patriarch ) longing for the days he lived in the mill and always used to say :
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" NEVER LIKE A DAY IN THE MILL !! " .
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