Posted on 08/26/2015 6:35:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
Bishop Flavianus Michael Melki Was Killed in Hatred of the Faith
Syriac Catholic Bishop Flavianus Michael Melki, martyred during the "Assyrian Genocide," will soon be called 'blessed.'
According to Fides, the bishop will be beatified at the Patriarchal convent of Our Lady of Deliverance in Harissa, Lebanon, on the evening of Saturday, Aug. 29, during a solemn liturgy. Syrian Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Youssef III will preside over the beatification while numerous Patriarchs and heads of Christian churches of the East from Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are expected to attend.
Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, will read aloud the decree of beatification at the beginning of the Divine Liturgy, which will take place on the centenary of the future canonized saint's birth.
Born in 1858, Flavianos Michael Melki would go on to be an Eastern Catholic prelate of the Brothers of Saint Ephrem, and later the Syrian Catholic eparch of Gazarta, where he would be killed. As a priest, the cleric lived in extreme poverty and sold his vestments to help the poor. In the summer of 1915, Ottoman authorities arrested him along with the Chaldean bishop of the time.
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Beautified, huh? Good for him.
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