sentences:  These monks had spent the previous ten years living together entirely isolated from the world, in the desert caves of Wadi El Rayyan, about south of Fayoum.Pope Cyril VI ordered this group of monks to leave Wadi El Rayyan and go to the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great to restore it.At that time only six aged monks were living in the monastery, and its historic buildings were on the verge of collapsing.