The Life of Saint Maron

 St. Maron is one of the most famous figures of the Syriac Antioch Maronite Church. A monk, a priest and a priest, the patron saint of the Maronites. Many churches in the world have been honored in honor of his name, and many have taken his name and become a living example of emulation. From here we take a peek at his biography and spiritual impact from the writings of St. John Chrysostom and his historian Bishop Theodoretus.
Saint Maroun was born in the year 350 AD in the north of Syria in the city of Kafr Nabo. He is currently in northwestern Aleppo. Which is the term "the history of the righteous men of God", which the historian Theodoretus, Bishop of Cyrus, wrote in 459. The friend of St. John the Goldsmith and the study colleague were studying in Antioch before they adopted the Nostalgic style of life As stated in St. John Chrysostom's letter.
In 398 Maroun left public life and retired in Kaluta on a mountain in the Qureshi region northwest of Aleppo. This mountain today is called Mount Sim'an, in comparison to the monastery of St. Simon the Baptist. There he spent his days and nights in the open, fasting, prayer and austerity. Theodoret described him as saying: "Maron has been austerity and a lot of death, under the heat of the sky, tired and tired in fasting, prayers and vigilant nights, kneeling and prostrating, contemplating the perfection of God and when the storms intensified he resorted to a tent erected there by the skin of goats. In rare circumstances. " And set up on the abandoned pagan temple of the god Nebo, turning it into the true worship of God.
Because of his austerity, exhortation and healing ability, people have come to him from nearby villages and towns, including those who have resorted to physical illness and others to mental illness. He came in his biography: «The fever was dampened by the shadow of his blessing, and the diseases of all different heal all, and Abbalzha defeat one of the treatment is" prayer ".
St. Maron, however, did not "limit himself to healing the diseases of the body, but he also cleansed the diseases of the soul. He was cured of anger and lies, and of taboos and other evils," as stated in his book Theodoretus.
And around him in caves and caves and silos, waiting to lose them Vizgon eagerly to his sermons and guidance «guided guidance in the jungles of the life of ascetic». The closest person to Maron was the monk Zabina whom the saint gave him much respect and reverence for his old age and took some of his methods of asceticism and asceticism. Some historians even considered that the monk Zabina may be the Maronite teacher. Among his disciples were Jacob the Quraysh and Lemanus, and his friend the Hermit Zevenas.
In 410, St. Maron died. "There was a fierce battle between the surrounding inhabitants to take over his body, and a nearby town was overcrowded." As the historian Theodorets mentioned, and this town actually applies to the town of Brad, which was an administrative center in northern Syria, south of Cyrus
In 452 the Byzantine emperor Marcianus Deira was built next to the town of Maarat al-Nu'man in honor of this great saint. Many belonged to this convent and they were called monks of the Monastery of Saint Maron, and a considerable number of nuns, perhaps the most famous saints Marana, Kyra and Domenina, were also included.
After Mar Maroun's students preached the people of Lebanon, the Maronite entity concentrated in Lebanon. The Maronite spirituality originated in Lebanon. This spirituality has become a spiritual heritage that draws the Maronites to the Gospel, to the incarnate Lord Jesus Christ, to St. Maron as their example of living the Gospel simply and sincerely, and with devotion and heroism.