Not to be confused with the 4th-century founder of the Maronite Church, Maron.
Saint
John Maron
Maronite Patriarch of Antioch
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628 Sirmaniyah or Sarmin, present Syria
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707 Kfarhy, near Batroun, Lebanon
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John Maron (Arabic: يوحنا مارون, Youhana Maroun; Latin: Ioannes Maronus; Syriac: ܝܘܚܢܢ ܡܪܘܢ; 628, Sirmaniyah or Sarmin, present Syria – 707, Kfarhy, Lebanon), was a Syriac monk from what is now modern Syria. and the first Maronite Patriarch. He is revered as a saint by the Catholic Church, especially the Maronite Church, and is commemorated on March 2. He died and was buried in Kfarhy near Batroun, in Lebanon, where a shrine is dedicated to him.[1]
Jérôme Labourt, writing in the Catholic Encyclopedia says that John Maron's "very existence is extremely doubtful... if he existed at all, it was as a simple monk".[2] French theologian Eusèbe Renaudot similarly held doubts regarding John Maron's existence.[2] Other scholarship has assessed John Maron as having existed and served as Maronite Patriarch when invasions by Byzantine emperor Justinian II were repulsed and the Maronite people gained a greater degree of political independence.[3]
^Gibbon, Edward (1898). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Methuen.
^ abLabourt, Jérôme. "Maronites." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 9 September 2021 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^"Maronite church". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
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