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What are the chief characteristics of the Maronite Catholic Church?

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What are the chief characteristics of the Maronite Catholic Church?

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They are three: The city of Antioch, in ancient Syria, third largest city in the Roman Empire, was a place of two cultures: the Hellenistic-Greek culture of Roman learning, commerce and government, and the Syriac culture of the surrounding areas. St. Maron withdrew from this big city culture to a place of hermitage on the Orontes River, the river that flowed through Antioch. From this source the Maronite Church reads the Bible with an eye to history and to the literal (but not literalistic, or fundamentalist) meaning of the sacred text as the starting point for interpretation. Also here is the source for the true appreciation of the human side of the Mystery of Jesus, at once human and divine. The ancient Mesopotamian Christianity of Edessa and Nisibis. These cities were between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Here developed the famous theological Schools of Edessa and Nisibis, and gave birth to Church Fathers such as St. Ephrem, Harp of the Holy Spirit; Aphrahat, the Persian Sage, an

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