gospel · -4 · Egypt
Warned in a dream, Joseph took the child and his mother by night and went to Egypt, to Egypt. The Coptic church traces the holy family's route through its own country to this day; the return from Egypt, already in this dataset, is the other half of it.
The flight into Egypt is a story recounted in the Gospel of Matthew and in New Testament apocrypha. Soon after the visit by the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee to Egypt with Mary and the infant Jesus since King Herod would seek the child to kill him. The episode is frequently shown in art, as the final episode of the Nativity of Jesus in art, and was a common component in cycles of the Life of the Virgin as well as the Life of Christ. Within the narrative tradition, iconic representation of the "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" developed after the 14th century.
The child escapes Herod; Egypt takes its own share in the gospel story.