Our Saints

Saint Maroun lived in the fourth century and died at the beginning of the fifth century. He lived at the top of Qurosh hills between Aleppo and Antioch and had died there by 423 at the very latest. The only surviving biography is by Theodoret of Cyrrhus, a bishop from that part of ancient Syria. It reads:

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I will call to mind Maroun, for he adorned the godly troop of the holy ones. Maroun embraced life under the sky, taking for himself a certain hill-top which had long ago been honoured by the impious. And having dedicated to God the sacred precincts of the demons in that place, he passed all of his time there, pitching a small tent, but making little use of it. Maroun did not only employ the customary labours, but he conceived others also, gathering together the wealth of wisdom.