Lebanese Maronite Order

The Baladites, formally known as the Lebanese Maronite Order, is a monastic order among the Levant-based, Catholic Maronite Church, which from the beginning has been specifically a monastic Church. The order was founded in 1694 in the Monastery of Mart Moura, Ehden, Lebanon, by three Maronite young men from Aleppo, Syria, under the patronage of Patriarch Estephan El Douaihy. The Aleppian monks of Aleppo, a city in present Syria, resulted from a split with the Baladites. Pope Clement XIV sanctioned this separation in 1770. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baladites) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)