The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs By Martin Mosebach,Alta L. Price

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Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes.In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-clad Christian men on a Libyan beach.In the West, daily reports of new atrocities may have displaced the memory of this particularly vile event. But not in the world from which the murdered came. All but one were young Coptic Christian migrant workers from Egypt. Acclaimed literary writer Martin Mosebach traveled to the Egyptian village of El-Aour to meet their families and better understand the faith and culture that shaped such conviction.He finds himself welcomed into simple concrete homes through which swallows dart. Portraits of Jesus and Mary hang on the walls along with roughhewn shrines to now-famous loved ones. Mosebach is amazed time and again as, surrounded by children and goats, the bereaved replay the cruel propaganda video on an iPad. There is never any talk of revenge, but only the pride of having a martyr in the family, a saint in heaven. “The 21” appear on icons crowned like kings, celebrated even as their community grieves. A skeptical Westerner, Mosebach finds himself a stranger in this world in which everything is the reflection or fulfillment of biblical events, and facing persecution with courage is part of daily life.In twenty-one symbolic chapters, each preceded by a picture, Mosebach offers a travelogue of his encounter with a foreign culture and a church that has preserved the faith and liturgy of early Christianity – the “Church of the Martyrs.” As a religious minority in Muslim Egypt, the Copts find themselves caught in a clash of civilizations. This book, then, is also an account of the spiritual life of an Arab country stretched between extremism and pluralism, between a rich biblical past and the shopping centers of New Cairo.

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The story begins with a video in 2015. It’s difficult not to remember the line of 21 men in orange jumpsuits, their hands tied behind their backs, being marched along a beach by masked men in black. The 21 were Egyptian Copts who had been working in Libya; their captors were self-proclaimed members of ISIS. Each of the captive member were forced to kneel in the sand, and then beheaded by the masked captors standing behind them.The highly staged and professionally produced video was meant to terrify; what it did was horrify.German writer Martin Mosebach watched that video, and the expressions on the victims’ faces overwhelmed him. The faces did not show terror or fear. Instead, what Mosebach saw was acceptance and calm. These men were prepared to be martyred. And he asked himself, who were these men, where did they come from, and what kind of tradition and culture led to an acceptance of martyrdom?He’s answered those questions in “The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs.” He traveled to Egypt, specifically Upper Egypt, to the villages where 20 of the 21 men came from. He talked with their priests, their bishops, their families, and their neighbors. He talks with the Coptic pope in Alexandria. He talked with Copts working in Cairo. He understands that his Western European cultural tradition will make it difficult for him to understand why the 21 seemed to go peacefully into martyrdom.What he finds in Egypt is a flourishing Coptic community, a reality very different from what little is presented in the news media, which focuses on Muslim atrocities and bombings of Coptic churches. Those threats exist, but so does a massive church building program, hospitals run by Coptic Christians and often employing both Christian and Muslim doctors, and people who live their daily lives unafraid because of their faith.And what he learns is that Coptic Christianity has survived nearly 1,500 years of Islamic domination, and one way it has is the acceptance of martyrdom as a fact of life.Mosebach, born in 1951, is a novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter, playwright, and poet. His novels translated into English include “The Heresy of Formlessness” and “What Was Before.” Also available in English is his 2019 collection of essays, “Subversive Catholicism: Papacy, Liturgy, Church.” “The 21” is his first non-fiction work and was translated from the German by Alta Price.The author seems surprised and attracted by much of what he finds in the land of the martyrs. What he describes seems solidly in context with the history of the early Christian church, and readers familiar with that history will be less surprised. Mosebach in “The 21” tells the stories of those men martyred for their faith on that Libyan beach. He also tells the story of how martyrdom was an integral reality of their faith. Many Western readers may find that hard to accept, but many Western Christian readers will not.

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