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Aramaic language

Aramaic is a Semitic language with a 3,000-year history. It has been the language of administration of empires and the language of divine worship. It was the day-to-day language of Israel in the Second Temple period (539 BCE – 70 CE), the original...
Lebanese Maronite Order
Maronite Church

Maronites (Arabic: الموارنة‎, Lebanese: Marune, Syriac: ܡܪܘܢܝܐ, Latin: Ecclesia Maronitarum) are members of one of the Lebanese or Syriac Eastern Catholic Churches, with a heritage reaching back to Maron the Syriac Monk in the early 5th century. The...
John Maron
Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès
Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini

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1808

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Dec 14, 1858

Saint Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini (c. 1808 - December 14, 1858), a Lebanese Roman Catholic saint and a member of the Maronite Church.. Born in the year 1808 in Hardin, Lebanon, St Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini is believed to have performed many...
Syriac language

Syriac (ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ leššānā Suryāyā) is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from the 4th to the 8th centuries. It was the...
Elias Peter Hoayek

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1843

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1931

Archbishop and Patriarch Elias Peter Hoayek (1843 – 1931) (alt. spellings Hoyek, Hwayek,Huayek, Juayek, Hawayek) (Arabic: الحويك‎); was born in Helta, Lebanon. He was Patriarch of Antioch for the Maronites, the largest Christian community in the...
Anthony Peter Khoraish
Irmologion
Melkite

The term Melkite (also written Melchite) is used to refer to various Christian churches and their members originating in the Middle East. The word comes from the Syriac word malkāyā (Syriac: ܡܠܟܝܐ), meaning "imperial". In Arabic, the word Malakī ...