The Coptic Orthodox Church commemorated on Tuesday, His Holiness late Pope Shenouda III ordination as monk named Antonius AlSyriani on July 18, 1954.
It is worth mentioning that Pope Shenouda lived From 1956 until 1962 alone in a cave seven miles away from Syriac Monastery in Wadi Al Natroun, His Holiness devoted all his time to meditation and prayer, despite being ordained as priest after one year of monasticism.
Anba Thaophilis Abbot of Syriac Monastery, assigned the Borrowing and Manuscripts Library at the monastery to Pope Shenouda, after Fr. Makari AlSyriani, who later became Anba Samuel, the late Bishop of Public Services.