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Martyred bishop beatified

Catholic Herald

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Michael_Malke-505x500 Flavianus Michael Melki, a Syrian Catholic cleric, was martyred during the Assyrian Genocide of 1915 for refusing to convert to Islam.

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