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Biography of |
Hmayak Petros XVII Guedikian |
(1976-1982) |
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The patriarch of bombs period
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Former abbot of the Venice Mekhitarist order, Hmayak Petros XVII was experienced, prudent, and had a faultless religious life.
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He spent the whole period of his patriarchate under the bombs, in the days of the Lebanese conflict preferring to stay in the patriarchate under the bombs, near to his people and clergyman, rather than taking refuge in a safe place.
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