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PHCENICIA AND LEBANON.
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They adhered to the Papal Church in 1182,
and now pride themselves on their devotion
to the Pope of Rome, yet it was not until
1438 that they consented to acknowledge
the supremacy of the Pope in matters of
ecclesiastical discipline. Their parish priests
are married men, and they use the Syriac
lanofuace in their Church Service. Their
patriarch yields only in dignity to the Pope
himself. The present patriarch is Boulos
(Paul) Butros Masaad, taking the name
Butros (Peter) as an official title. Under
him are thirteen bishops, one thousand
priests, one thousand two hundred monks,
six hundred nuns, and seventy-one monas-
teries. The Maronite people number two
hundred and fifty thousand, the mass of
whom are grossly ignorant. The immense
revenues of the monasteries are devoted
to the support of the monks and nuns or
the private emolument of a few who control
the monastic estates. The total number of
monasteries of all sects in Lebanon is one
hundred and seventeen, with two thousand
five hundred monks and nuns.
Ehden, we have said, is a typical
Lebanon village, with its Dar or great house,
surrounded by the flat earth-roofed stone
tenements of the peasantry, its numerous
churches with their clear-toned bells, its
village convent at Mar Sarkis, its copious
water, its primitive oven, consisting of a
large earthen jar sunk in the ground, its
brawny youth and buxom girls with their
unique head ornaments of an inverted silver
cup, over which the white veil is thrown, its
comfortless houses in which the people sleep
on the earthen floors, the cattle, goats, and
sheep sharing the one large room with the
husband, wife, sons, and daughters.
THE CHASM OF NEB'A EL LEBBAN.
Just above the Natural Bridge (Jisr el Hajr).
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They adhered to the Papal Church in 1182,
and now pride themselves on their devotion
to the Pope of Rome, yet it was not until
1438 that they consented to acknowledge
the supremacy of the Pope in matters of
ecclesiastical discipline. Their parish priests
are married men, and they use the Syriac
lanofuace in their Church Service. Their
patriarch yields only in dignity to the Pope
himself. The present patriarch is Boulos
(Paul) Butros Masaad, taking the name
Butros (Peter) as an official title. Under
him are thirteen bishops, one thousand
priests, one thousand two hundred monks,
six hundred nuns, and seventy-one monas-
teries. The Maronite people number two
hundred and fifty thousand, the mass of
whom are grossly ignorant. The immense
revenues of the monasteries are devoted
to the support of the monks and nuns or
the private emolument of a few who control
the monastic estates. The total number of
monasteries of all sects in Lebanon is one
hundred and seventeen, with two thousand
five hundred monks and nuns.
Ehden, we have said, is a typical
Lebanon village, with its Dar or great house,
surrounded by the flat earth-roofed stone
tenements of the peasantry, its numerous
churches with their clear-toned bells, its
village convent at Mar Sarkis, its copious
water, its primitive oven, consisting of a
large earthen jar sunk in the ground, its
brawny youth and buxom girls with their
unique head ornaments of an inverted silver
cup, over which the white veil is thrown, its
comfortless houses in which the people sleep
on the earthen floors, the cattle, goats, and
sheep sharing the one large room with the
husband, wife, sons, and daughters.
THE CHASM OF NEB'A EL LEBBAN.
Just above the Natural Bridge (Jisr el Hajr).