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Who Are the Maronites-History-Arabic

الموارنة هم أتباع الكنيسة الانطاكية السريانية المارونية التي هي كنيسة مسيحية مشرقية اجتمع أتباعها حول القديس مارون الذي سميت بإسمه. وقد أقر المجمع البطريكي الماروني 2006 الملف الأول الفصل الأول ص. 40 الهوية: ”كنيسة أنطاكية سريانية ذات تراث ليتورجي خاص“. ينتسب الموارنة إلى الكنيسة السريانية وهم يتبعون أنفسهم لسلطة البابا في روما. ينسب [...]

Who Are The Maronites-History-English

Maronites are a people of authentic identity. The Holy Valley of Kadisha, with its hermitages graved in rocks overhung by the Cedars which endlessly extend the vertiginous summits of the mountains, are the symbols of the Maronites’ tenacity, vitality and independence. The Patriarchal Monastery of Qannoubin, perched as an eagle’s nest, summarizes their entire history” [...]

Saint Charbel Miracles-Nohad Al Chami

نهاد سمعان الشامي [...]

Saint Charbel Miracles-Mariam Awad

مريم عسّاف عوّاد [...]

Abouna Yaacoub Life

The Venerable Khalil (Father Jacques) HADDAD was born on 1 Feb 1875 in Ghazir, Lebanon. He was ordained on 1 Nov 1901 in Beirut, Lebanon. He died on 26 Jun 1954 in Lebanon. Father Jacques attended school in Ghazir, and then at the “College de la Sageese” in Beirut, studying Arabic, French, and Syriac.

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Saint Hardini Life

Youssef Kassab Al-Hardini was born in 1808 in Hardin, Lebanon. As a child, he was strongly influenced by the monastic tradition of the Maronite Church. Four of his brothers became priests or monks, and Youssef himself entered the Lebanese Maronite Order in 1828.

The young man began religious life at the monastery of St Anthony in [...]