The monastery was originally built in the fourth century
Posted on 08/21/2015 2:42:13 PM PDT by NYer
Islamists destroy 5th-century Mar Elian monastery
ISIS fighters have demolished a monastery in central Syria, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Mar Elian monastery in the town of Qaryatain near Homs, was captured by the terrorists from the Syrian Army two weeks ago. This week they used bulldozers to raze the holy site,
Mar Elian is also where Fr Jacques Mourad was kidnapped in May. He remains one of six clergy in Syria who have been kidnapped by rebel groups, their fates unknown.
Qaryatain is near a road linking the ancient Roman city of Palmyra, also ISIS-controlled to the Qalamoun mountains on the border with Lebanon.
ISIS has also kidnapped 230 people including dozens of Christian families after taking Qaryatain. Of those captured, 48 had been released and 110 were transferred to Raqqa province, the headquarters of the Islamist group.
Shocking new images of ISIS brutes desecrating priceless 1,500-year-old Christian monastery
The church was built on the spot where he died and his remains still rest in a small sarcophagus in a small chapel near its main crypt.
Catholic ping!
BS...Obama had a stand down order for the entire coalition.
Sounds just like what Henry VIII did to get rid of Catholicism.
Very sad.. also sad is the fact America sits with its hands tied, completely unable to stop this wanton murder and destruction. And this will continue until Obama the Islamist is gone.
IS no different than the Saudi Arabia which doesn’t even allow Christian churches to be built
I’ll bet St. Elian’s remains don’t still rest there. His remains and the shattered parts of the sarcophagus are probably strewed out in a street gutter.
Was Henry VIII a muzzie?
And Obama will celebrate this
No, but he destroyed and pillaged church and monasteries and left them in ruins. Much to the sadness of most people in Great Britain, not because of religion, but because of the great works of art that were lost.
Sooner rather than later we’re going to be giving the same treatment to Mecca and Medina.
Beautiful Church.
They will pay for this......in the long run.
hey. but. the united states is troubled by the israelis razing f’n slimeball
palistinean hovels in gaza.
No, but he was a murderer, and a looter of monasteries. So he and the jihad brothers had something in common.
Whatever they destroy, we’ll just build again.
Stopping these prehistoric superstitious ghouls is easy enough. Everybody knows how to do it. The only question is who is willing to force-feed them bacon and three-buck chuck, execute them, sew their corpses into pig carcasses, toss them into a flaming lard pit, and post the video on Facebook.
That will be the day of universal day of liberation of Islam and a day of celebration.
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