Saturday 7th February 2009

Canopo, the ancient Egyptian city now sunken, the ancient Greek historian Herodotus talked about for the first time. There the temples of Serapide and Isis stood, invoked to heal people. «Crowds of ill people pressed the doors of the temples to spend the nights there and sleep, waiting for the god to have mercy on them», wrote suggestively Evaristo Breccia. Canopo, the Lourdes of pagans.

 

Father, Son, Spirit give Your love, let me give Your love.

This article is available in Italian too