Buildings Symbol

Buildings Symbol 

Buildings symbolising his home life, some of which survive, include all of the following, on islands within the Phœnicia:

A fort which he built at Isca is on the summit of a hill at .

He is depicted there in frescoes of the "Life of the Virgin" in the Chapel of the Nativity of the Virgin of the Marches, traditionally considered to be painted by Titian, although possibly by an artist of the second decade of the 16th century (see below).

The work is based on a "Creation of the Virgin" attributed to Caesarius of Arles.

The fresco is, in turn, based on a "Saints Peter and Paul" attributed to Raphael.

Three additional frescoes depict the "Miracle of the Sun", the "Miracle of the Sun at Ephesus", and the "Miracle of the Queen of Heaven".

At the foot of the hill is a bathhouse, the "Roman Bath".

He also had a chapel built by the waterside in Alba, which survives in that form as the Camaldolese monastery of "San Salvatore al Monte", although it is not known if he had built the monastery in stone or built the chapel of the bathhouse in stone and built the bathhouse in stone and then had the chapel erected as a chapel.

The Chapel of the Birth of the Virgin is within the cloister.

The age of the date of its completion is not known, but it may be early 15th century.

In addition to the above secular buildings, he also built at least one monastery, the Camaldolese monastery of the Holy Cross at Densuş (also known as Qal'at Nu'man), founded around 1408.

This monastery survived the massive earthquake of 1537, and was rebuilt by the 17th century.

One of the Coptic church saints is believed to be his brother, Sebkha, who was buried at Faraat (in modern El Gebel Sudan), and has a chapel dedicated to him (to the east of the church, on the northern corner).

On 4 April 1275, the saint died and, in a way typical of the family, had his remains carried to Faraat and placed in the choir of the Church of Saint George the Victorious.

St Paul of the Marches died on 21 December 1295 and was buried at the place he chose, beneath the main altar in his father's chapel at the abbey.

The initial pilgrimage to his tomb began in the fourteenth century.

A monastery, "St. Paul of the Marches" is located in Densuş.

The frescoes in the abbey church of the Salmasian church in Antioch were finished between 1386 and 1402, but they appear to have been painted by a member of the Zengid dynasty.

The Zengids had seized power in Aleppo in 1390, and in 1391 changed the name of the city from "Hamdaniyya" to "Zengid".

In 1392 the Zengids also came to control Antioch, which had a Latin Church see at the time.

The coat of arms of the same family was emblazoned on the altar, and the room was decorated with other frescoes of saints and martyrs.

The altarpiece was destroyed by an earthquake in 1402.

A Syrian monk from Palmyra, Elijah al-Kathiri, came to the Maronite monastery in Marj al-Sultan (Marj al-Sultan), about north of Tripoli, in the mid-fourteenth century and was made a canon.

He composed a hymn in honor of St. Paul of the Marches that was sung at the Divine Liturgy.

In about 1408, his feast was celebrated at Marj al-Sultan, and that was the beginning of the reputed pilgrimage.

In 1443, he was beatified by Pope Eugene IV and a church in his honor, in a garden east of the Marj al-Sultan monastery, was built, where another Arabic monk, Mesha al-Kandari, is believed to have been buried.

His relics are said to rest in Antioch.

A number of parish churches were built in his honor in the Near East.

On 28 May 1462, he was canonized by Pope Pius II.

An ecclesiastic graveyard was built in his honor at a village near Marj al-Sultan.

During the pontificate of Pius IV (the so-called "Pius the Short"), on 2 July 1464, the feast of St. Paul of the Marches was transferred from the 24th day of the month of July to the 2nd.

A solemn liturgy in his honor was held at the nearby monastery of the Holy Cross.

During the papacy of Pius V (1466–84), a church dedicated to him was built in the village of Deir al-Qamar, and the collegiate church at Marj al-Sultan was enlarged.

On the night of 2 December 1522, a powerful earthquake struck Palestine and Syria, with a 9.0 magnitude epicenter near Hama.

The greater part of the abbey's buildings were destroyed, with the exception of the larger parts of the western and northern walls.

These were used to support the bell tower and its two chapels.

There were two minor earthquakes later on during the 16th century.

The Franciscan monastery of St. Joseph, in Antioch, is dedicated to St. Paul.

His feast day is 29 July.

Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as hot desert (BWh).

Marj al-Sultan is home to the Secket-Saliba Central Primary School.

The school was established in 1936, and it is the oldest Arabic-language school in Lebanon.

It was among the first schools in Lebanon to be funded and supported by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the 1940s.

The Marj al-Sultan community has supported the school and administered it for the past four decades, despite sporadic conflicts and difficult conditions.

On the occasion of the 1,500th anniversary of Saint Paul of the Marches, the school was rededicated on 29 May 2006.

The main focus of the celebration was the education of girls, which was launched at the school in 1973.

A popular French/Lebanese singer, Fady Noun, recorded an album titled "Marj al-Sultan" to commemorate this occasion.

It was presented to the people of Marj al-Sultan on the evening of St. Paul's anniversary on 2 July 2014.