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The Maronite Church beatified Patriarch Istifan al-Duwayhi, a"pillar" and a model of pastoral charity, on Friday, August 2, anniversary of his birth, during a grandiose evening ceremony at the patriarchal see in Bkerké.Holy See ‘deplores’ offence to Christians in Opening Ceremony
Ehden is also where he performed the miracle accredited by the Vatican for his beatification, when he instantly healed a woman suffering from HIV-negative polyarthritis. “At the end of his studies, he was asked to stay in Rome. Several other students at the Maronite College had given in to the temptation to remain in Europe, to serve at great universities or princely and royal courts," writes historian Tanios Noujeim. But al-Duwayhi insisted on going home to his community.
The life of this man of God, elected patriarch at only 40 years old, victim of the vagaries of a Mount Lebanon dominated first by the Mamluks and then by the Ottomans, stumbling over the internal dissensions of the time, is punctuated by miracles of tenacity and supernatural help. Archbishop Semeraro stressed above all his pastoral qualities, commenting on the Gospel of the Good Shepherd that Bishop Maroun Nasser Gemayel, author of a biography of the new blessed, read.
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