The Maronites (Cistercian Studies) by Naaman Paul

By Naaman Paul

The Maronite Church is one in all twenty-two japanese Catholic church buildings in communion with the Pope of Rome. Her patriarch is in Lebanon. Forty-three bishops and nearly 5 million trustworthy make up her presence during the world.

The tale of Maron, a fifth-century hermit-priest, and the neighborhood accrued round him, later referred to as the Maronites, tells one other attention-grabbing tale of the monastic and missionary activities of the Church. Maron's tale happens within the context of Syrian monasticism, which was once a mixture of either solitary and communal lifestyles, and is a story of Christians of the center East as they navigated the tough seas of political divisions and ecclesiastical controversies from the fourth to the 9th centuries.

Abbot Paul Naaman, a Maronite student and previous greater basic of the Order of Lebanese Maronite priests, properly areas the learn of the origins of the Maronite Church squarely in the course of the heritage of the Church. His ebook, The Maronites: The Origins of an Antiochene Church, released throughout the 16th centenary of Maron's loss of life, deals believable insights into her formation and early improvement, grounding the Maronite Church in her Catholic, Antiochian, Syriac, and monastic roots.

Abbot Paul Naaman is a Maronite student and previous stronger basic of the Order of Lebanese Maronite Monks.

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