St. Maron, depicted with disciples in this painting in a parish church in Jezzine, Lebanon, was a 4th-century Syrian Christian priest who later became a hermit monk who attracted disciples who went on to settle in the cedar-forested highlands of Mount Lebanon. The Maronites have been in communion with Rome since the 12th century but retained autonomous governance under the Patriarch of Antioch in Lebanon. | Date: 1863 | Source: Wikimedia CommonsDownload Original File
