Father Matta Al-Maskeen succeeded in closing the curtain on one of the deepest divisions in the history of the Coptic church when he told His Excellency Pope Shenouda III on television that he would concede on the issue of the farm of the monastery of Saint Maqarios, which lies at the seventy kilometer mark on the Marsa Matruh road. However, he has also managed to spread fear amongst his followers because at the beginning of July, he returned to the farm only to head off to an unknown place that nobody is sure of even today.