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SOME TESTIMONIALS FROM HISTORY

“En la cité de Baruth est l’Eglise de Monseigneur Saint Georges … encore en la dicte Eglise Saint-Georges, est la fontaine de Monseigneur Saint Georges, laquelle il fit de sa lence dont il tua le serpent. Cette fontaine est moult bonne et en boit on par devocion” Seigneur d’Anglure cité par du Mesnil du Buisson (1395)

“Les Grecs ont une belle Eglise dédiée à Saint-Georges. C’est le siège de leur Archevêché” Chevalier d’Arvieux, (1660)

“Another Church there is in the town, which seems to be ancient; but being a very mean fabric is suffered to remain still in the hands of the Greeks. We found it adorned with abundance of old pictures … But that which appeared most observable was a very odd figure of a Saint, drawn at full length, with a large beard reaching down to his feet. The curate gave us to understand that this was Saint Nicephorus …”, Maundrell, A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, 1697

“The first of these, in which we saw the morning mass performed and the sacraments administered by the Bishop, on the occasion of their Easter-Eve, is a fine lofty building, recently repaired and set in order, and is fitted up with a splendor almost equal to the Greek church in the holy sepulcher at Jerusalem” Buckingham, 1825

“L’Eglise grecque (orthodoxe) de Beyrouth est le plus beau temple Chrétien qui existe dans l’empire ottoman, la plus vaste et la mieux ornée. Elle fut bâtie pendant la domination des Princes de la montagne”, Monsieur Henri Guys, French Consul, Beirut, (1850)

“The Cathedral, with its splendid iconostasis and other treasures is the greatest and most glorious Church in the whole Middle East” Archbishop Makarios III, President of the Republic of Cyprus, Beirut, 1974