The Fanqith of the Loiza and an Ancient Maronite Prayer for Lebanon

Nidaa Al Watan: Maronite liturgical manuscripts from before the liturgical reform period—that is, before the sixteenth century—are scarce. When one is found, it is usually a manuscript of the Passion (the sufferings) or of the fast. As for the old Maronite feast fanqiths (the commemorations of saints), they were either deliberately destroyed by…