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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 9, 20 June 1884, Page 9

During the year 1883 over 200,000 pilgrims visited the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. A subterranean Coptic church of the fifth century, with many inscriptions, was recently discovered by the French archaeological scholar, -Maspero. the director of the museum at Bulak, on the site of the ancient Thebes. These inscriptions are written on white stones with red ink, and are mostly well preserved. The largest is one of three hundred lines against the Monophysites, written in the Iheban dialect. Another contains a declaration of St. Cyril of Alexandria against Nestorius. The whole interior is covered with addresses to different saints in the Coptic, Greek, and Syrian languages.— Aye Maria. J ..