Father Lazarus

You know, some Copts, Coptic Orthodox, pray, Lord, let me be worthy to be spat upon.

Because if I can have the grace of having what you faced for me, this is the least I could do for you.

Another story of another priest, a late, his name is Father Bishoy Kamala.

He was lately canonized as a saint.

Every morning as he would walk to the church, he would have to take the same route.

There was an extremist shop owner.

Every time he would see Father Bishoy, he would spit at him.

Every day.

Because he had to walk the same route to get to the church.

Every day he spat at him, spat at him, spat at him.

One day that man wasn't there.

The shop owner wasn't there.

So Father Bishoy knocks.

Usually the shop owners would live upstairs.

Like it would be the shop downstairs and the apartment would be upstairs.

So Father Bishoy goes up and knocks.

And the wife, she's a veiled lady, a Muslim lady.

She looks at the father.

She knew what her husband was doing.

She thought he was going to do something to harm them.