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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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Father Joseph was born in Nazareth in 1838. He was among the first seminarians sent to Ghazir, Lebanon, in 1849, for his studies. Back in Jerusalem, he finished his theological courses there and he was ordained in 1863. Up to 1866, he taught in the seminary, he was later sent to Beirut as Secretary of the Apostolic Delegation. In 1889 he was called back to become the Chancellor of the Patriarchate and went to the Vatican Council I as the theologian of the Patriarch. In 1871 he was nominated Canon of the Holy Sepulchre. From 1879, father Joseph worked with sister Marie Alphonsine Ghattas to open the new institute of the Sisters of the Holy Rosary. He died in Nazareth on September 30th, 1892.
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Saints of the Hl. Land