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- Maronites (Arabic: الموارنة, romanized : Al-Mawārinah; Syriac: ܡܖ̈ܘܢܝܐ, romanized : Marunoye) are a Syriac Christian ethnoreligious group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant region of West Asia, whose members traditionally belong to the Maronite Church, with the largest concentration long residing near Mount Lebanon in modern Lebanon.
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Maronite church, Eastern rite church prominent especially in modern Lebanon. It traces its origins to St. Maron and St. John Maron and enjoyed independence for much of its history, both ecclesiologically and sociopolitically. The church retains the West Syrian liturgy and has its own patriarch.
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'Greater Lebanon' created a change in the demographic balance that had existed on Mt. Lebanon. The Christian population in Lebanon dropped from 85 per cent to 54 per cent. The Maronites, who had comprised the hard core of Mt. Lebanon, now made up only 30 per cent of the total population.
The Maronite movement reached Lebanon when in 402 AD Saint Maron's first disciple, Abraham of Cyrrhus, who was called the Apostle of Lebanon, realized that there were many non-Christians in Lebanon and so he set out to convert the Phoenician inhabitants of the coastal lines and mountains of Lebanon, introducing them to the way of Saint Maron.
A Brief History of the Maronites. - I -. In the first quarter of the fifth century, Maron, a Syriac-speaking hermit of Aramean origins, died in the region of Cyrrhus, between Aleppo and Antioch (north-west of present-day Syria). The region was administratively known back then in the Roman-Byzantine period under Syria Prima.
Secure in their mountain strongholds, the Maronites were re-discovered in the mountains near Tripoli, Lebanon, by Raymond of Toulouse on his way to conquer Jerusalem in the Great Crusade of 1096–1099.
On 27 October 1919, the Lebanese delegation led by Maronite Patriarch Elias Peter Hoayek presented the Lebanese aspirations in a memorandum to the Paris Peace Conference.
Aug 22, 2018 · posted on: Aug 22, 2018. Maronites settled in Mt. Lebanon. By: John Mason/ Arab America Contributing Writer. Arab Christian Maronites (a sect of Catholic) of Lebanon present a complicated picture historically. Their history is typical of other minority religions adapting to the vast sweep of Sunni Islam in the 7th century.
