Mar Gregory Abu al-Faraj of Melitene, maphrian of the East, known as Bar...
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The Syrian Orthodox Church is the Church of Antioch, whose foundation goes back to the very dawn of Christianity, when Antioch was the capital of Syria1 and one of the three capital cities in the Roman...
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Earthly things have little interest for me. I have died to the world and live for him…. Farewell desert, my friend … and [ farewell ] exile, my mother, who after my death shall keep my body until the...
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