2 Quotes by Daniel Fanous

Whenever a president visits, my father [Nasser] farewells them at the guests' rooms door; but with Kyrillos, he farewells him at the car door and remains there standing until the car leaves.

Kyrillos on one occasion casually approached the lions. Both he and the lions gently accepted the presence of the other. "Why be astonished?" the emperor is remembered as commenting to shocked onlookers, "He is a holy man.