
The Maronite Church, Prisoner of Its Own Memory
Fady Noun, 2024-10-26 13:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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For some Lebanese Christians, the 1860 massacres remain an open wound — a persistent thorn in their collective memory. The painful recollection of this brutality resurfaced during the canonization of the Massabki brothers, who were martyred in Damascus on the night of July 9-10, 1860. How did it come to pass that over 20,000 Christians — half ...