The Italian forensic team that found the remains of two priests killed during the genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1918. (Credit: Courtesy Father Luis Escalante.)
Posted on 05/19/2022 6:05:32 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Italian forensic team that found the remains of two priests killed during the genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1918. (Credit: Courtesy Father Luis Escalante.)
ROME – After several days of searching, the remains of two Syrian Chaldean martyrs, killed for their faith by the Ottoman Empire, were found last week in a chapel outside the Christian village of Qaraqosh in Iraq’s Nineveh Plain.
Syrian Catholic Father Yusuf Jabo Sakarya of Mosul, and Father Behnam Hanam Mikho Khozymi, a monk belonging to the order of the Brothers of Saint Ephrem, were murdered by Turkish gendarmes on June 28, 1915, just outside of Qaraqosh while they were returning from Mosul to celebrate the feast of Peter and Paul the following day.
Their names were recently added to what is known as the “Great Cause” of Chaldean Catholics murdered in odium fidei (in hatred of the faith) during the final years of the Ottoman Empire, which was attempting to stop a bubbling revolution at the beginning of World War I.
More than 250,000 Assyrians-Chaldeans are believed to have been massacred between 1915 and 1918. Close to 40 of them are included in the martyrdom cause currently at the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of the Saints.
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Send this to Cenk Yugur. Perhaps he will finally have an aneurism
I’m sure the Turks deny this just like they deny the Armenian Genocide.
“I’m sure the Turks deny this just like they deny the Armenian Genocide.”
Of course they will.
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