Tomorrow the canonization of the martyrs of Damascus, three Maronite laymen murdered in 1860 along with eight Franciscan friars, will be celebrated in Rome...
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In today’s ordinary public consistory, scheduled for World Mission Day, the Franciscans and lay people killed in Syria in 1860 will be proclaimed saints...
Eight Franciscans and the three Maronite Massabki brothers were murdered in 1860 out of hatred for the faith in the Bab-Touma neighborhood. Symbolic figures of...