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Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai, patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church, presided over the Mass to celebrate the beatification of Patriarch Estephan El Douaihy. Amid concerns of impending conflict, Catholic clergy and political leaders drew together in Lebanon to celebrate the joyful beatification of Patriarch Estephan El Douaihy -- a 17th-century scholarly prelate who fashioned the Maronite Church and helped to build the country.
The beatification took place as the United States and others urged Iran to limit its promised military retaliation against Israel over the recent assassinations of Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Lebanese Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr. The hope, Cardinal Semeraro stressed during the beatification Mass, is that the legacy of Blessed Douaihy’s life may encourage modern-day Lebanese to seek out and trust God, and to press forward beyond the hardships they encounter.
At only 11 years old, the young Estephan, gifted with a precocious intellect, earned a scholarship to study at the Maronite College in Rome. At the end of his studies, it is said that he could have entered a European university or princely court, but he chose to return to Lebanon, where he opened schools and oversaw the building of churches, eventually becoming the patriarch.
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