Paul VI delivers the relic of the head of St. Mark to the Monophysite Copts of Cairo

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Paul VI receives a manuscript from the Monophysite Copt delegation

Paul VI officially giving away the Head of St. Mark the evangelist

Paul VI delivers to heretics the head of St. Mark
On June 24, 1968, at the Vatican, Paul VI delivers to a Monophysite Copt delegation,
the head of the Evangelist St. Mark that had been kept in Venice for centuries.

Above left, Paul VI receives a manuscript from the delegation.
Above right, the official act of delivering the head of St. Mark.

Below, at the inauguration of the Copt cathedral of Cairo on June 25,
their leader Kyrillus VI carries the head of the Evangelist.

Kyrillus VI carrying away the head of St. Mark the Evangelist

Photos from L'Osservatore Romano, June 24-25, 1968

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Posted January 16, 2005

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