Website of the Week: 21st October 2018

The Last Anchorite

"I never feel alone".This short documentary film tells the remarkable story of Father Lazarus El Anthony, a university lecturer and Marxist who abandoned his life in Australia and went in search of God and freedom. His pilgrimage eventually brought him to live the life of a Christian Coptic monk and live in solitude on the Egyptian Al-Qalzam Mountain in the pursuit of what the Desert Fathers called apatheia, holy stillness. Below the mountain, in an oasis, stands the world’s oldest monastery, the Monastery of St Anthony.The film was made by award-winning documentary filmmaker, Remigiusz Sowa.

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