A sample of what appears in the Real Messiah order it hereI had seen, more than half a century ago, when I was in Alexandria, in the crypt of the St. Mark church in the centre of Alexandria the body of a Patriarch, in his ceremonial dress sitting on a wooden throne. The face was "dried" and it looked more as a skull than a mommy. When I returned some ten years ago to look at the crypt a brand new cathedral had been built on top of the old church, it was resplendent with white marble...and when I went down into the crypt the original steps carved in the rock had been replace by "luxurious" marble. I remember saying to the priest who was guiding me that it now looked more than a Hilton hotel than a crypt...And there was a closed door so I could not see what I believe is the burial ground of the Copt Patriarchs. I must say that I did not insist in entering as my interest was not related to the dead Patriarchs, I only wanted to see how deep the crypt was going.
I intend to try and enter the crypt and I hope I will do it before long.
dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."