{"id":27833,"date":"2013-07-10T06:38:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T10:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/blessed-massabki-brothers\/"},"modified":"2013-07-10T06:38:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T10:38:58","slug":"blessed-massabki-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/blessed-massabki-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Massabki Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Blessed%20Massabki%20Brothers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blessed Massabki Brothers.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/07\/Blessed Massabki Brothers-thumb-250x358-14775.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"358\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Abdel Mohti, Francis, and Raphael were three Maronite laymen killed inside the Franciscan church in Damascus while they were praying.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">On 9 July 1860, the killers entered the Franciscan church in Damascus where the Brothers were in prayer. The Islamic fanatics gave the Brothers a choice: reject Christianity and accept Islam, or, be killed. The Brothers said: &#8220;You may destroy our lives but you cannot destroy our faith in Christ and our souls; we are Christians. In the faith of Christ we live and in the faith of Christ we shall die.&#8221; The three holy brothers were killed as were several of the Franciscan friars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Pope Pius XI beatified the three Massabki &nbsp;brothers on 7 October 1926.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Blessed Massabki Brothers, pray for Lebanon, the Church in the USA, and each one of us.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdel Mohti, Francis, and Raphael were three Maronite laymen killed inside the Franciscan church in Damascus while they were praying.&nbsp; On 9 July 1860, the killers entered the Franciscan church in Damascus where the Brothers were in prayer. The Islamic fanatics gave the Brothers a choice: reject Christianity and accept Islam, or, be killed. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/blessed-massabki-brothers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessed Massabki Brothers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3074,3241],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}