Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon and Maronite Catholics

American Catholic History

Noelle & Tom Crowe

History, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Maronite Catholics maintain one of the most ancient traditions within the Catholic Church. They are originally from the southern edge of Asia Minor, and lived in relative peace for many centuries in the mountains of Lebanon. But civil wars forced many to flee. During this time of upheaval, the devotion to Our Lady of Lebanon resulted in a massive and important shrine being built in Harissa, Lebanon, just northeast of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Maronites first came to America beginning in the late 1800s, settling wherever they could find jobs. During those years that often meant the steel cities of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Birmingham, Alabama, and Youngstown, Ohio. In the 1960s, a replica of the original shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon was built in rural northeast Ohio, just outside of Youngstown. That shrine, and its associated basilica, are a major site of pilgrimage every year for Maronites from across the U.S.

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1:01.6	Today, we're talking about the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon and the Maronite Catholics
1:07.3	who built it.
1:08.1	The National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon is in Jackson Township
1:11.8	in Mahoning County, Ohio, just a few miles to the west of Youngstown. I grew up a few miles to
1:17.5	the east of Youngstown. It would take about a half hour to drive through and around the city to get
1:22.5	from my parents' house to the shrine. And we did go there on occasion when I was growing up,
1:26.7	and I actually served a traditional Latin Mass in the there on occasion when I was growing up, and I actually served
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