Whole rooms covered in icons of saints were found and one icon Our father Abraham, the Bishop was also removed from the monastery.[1] Because the idea of sainthood was in transition, many works were created to resemble those that would indicate the image is of a saint; this was to insure if the person was later to be acknowledged as a saint, then there would be no need to retouch the portrait.[2] The monastery, which is located on the west bank of the River Nile, was excavated in the twentieth century by a team from the Institute Francais d'Archeologie Orientale, which was led by Jean Cledet and Jean Maspero.[5]