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The municipality is located at a distance of about 36 km (22.3704 miles) from the capital Beirut. It lies at an altitude of 950 meters (1) (3116.95 ft - 1038.92 yd) sea level and covers an area of 461 hectares (4.61 km ² - 1.77946 mi ²), the population is abut 3500 almost all of them are maronite christians
Ghosta occupies the most beautiful site on the Bay of Jounieh is more like a runway.
With wet weather and fresh air redolent pine Arig, attracting holidaymakers in the summer season
Greeck name "Augusta" and its meaning arrogance, greatness and pride,
anf for the historical novels who mentionned ghosta ,, where travelers Ernest Renan pointed out that "most of the coastal areas of Keserwan look Roman, and likeness of the names of villages out of Grecian and Latin, for example Ghousta".
It is anecdotally that match the original, that this region carried the name of the daughter in whose name Ougusreis Caesar invited Beirut "~ happy colony of Julia Augusta" Œ. She adds that the novel was the daughter of the Tsar to take Castle Ghosta her winter home and castle Beit Mery based summer.
According to some ancient references to that name is taken from King Philip Ogusti (Philippe Auguste)
The construction of the monastery dates back to the year 1192 by the Under-King of France Philippe Auguste, who led one of the Crusades. It is said that the agent in the housing Ghosta (he established a great structure on the name of St. Shalita and decorated Balawjah priestly clothes and luxurious and infested with jellyfish and golden crosses in the corridors before the doors)
And as long as this structure until 1305 when the defeated the Mamluks in the third campaign to boycott kesrouan villages who was burnt but the church of Mar Shalita survived the devastation
the monastery remained abandoned until the year 1615 when he bought the land accountant Joseph Khoury located the remains of the temple, and after years of re-construction of the monaster
The Lebanese Maronite Order (LMO) started the building of the monastery in 1879. Work on the new building finished in 1882.
From the very start, this monastery was intended to gather the Youth of the LMO to unify the education and the formation. The student monks continued their philosophical and theological studies there until the beginning of the First World War in 1914.
In 1939, the monastery accommodated, again, the three categories of monastic Youth: applicants, beginners and the student-monks. Since that date, the various categories of Youth were transferred for many times to other places, But this monastery remained always the favorite.
From 1976 to 1995, it accommodated the category of the student monks of the secondary cycle. It currently brings together the applicants of the secondary cycle, last stage before the novitiates.
In 1989, a center for the religious culture for the young people of the area was created there, where courses of religious, biblical and theological formation are organized, as well as spiritual conferences, retirements and a training of the Syriac language, cultural and liturgical language of the Maronites and Syriacs.
On 13 March 1865, Father Youhanna Habib purchased land and property in the valley of Ghosta-Kesrwan, which was to be Convent of Kreim. This provided the stepping stone which brought to him
On March 25, 1886, Father Kozah was appointed superior of the community as he was exemplary to his fellow missionaries.
Spirituality :
Self denial is perhaps the most prominent trait of any missionary. It is no different for the Kreimists. They are never to ask for payment or reward out of respect to Gods honour. They are called upon to be devoted whole heartedly to their spiritual duties and remain apathetic to political and social matters.
Obedience, poverty and brotherly love are the three virtues Father Youhanna Habib desired his missionaries to possess. These are indeed essential attributes to the success of the foundation.
Mission :
Rev Father Youhanna Habib established a code of conduct by which the missionaries must abide on both legal and spiritual level. This aided in demonstrating the missionaries independence to the community.
The Kreimists Missionaries do not believe in occupying their time in the confinement of the convent - living a hermit life style. Their vocation extends beyond that of even a priest, in that they are not only called to serve their parishioners, but rather, all Gods faithful.
The Kreimists support the concept of reaching out to the community and taking a practical approach to their faith, as opposed to silent worship. They are to be called to preach the word of God, along with unquestionably fulfilling their missionary duties
Joseph Dergham El Khazen was a member of the Khazen family and he was born in the village of Ghosta, in the Keserwan District, Lebanon. He married, and after the death of his wife he became priest. He was consecrated titular bishop of Ghosta in 1728 by the hands of patriarch Jacob Awad.[1] At the death of Jacob Awad, the electoral synod couldn't decide between two pretenders, so finally on February 25, 1733 he was elected for acclamation because of his influential family. The confirmation of his election by Pope Clement XII arrived on December 18, 1733.[2]
The reign of Joseph Dergham El Khazen is remembered for the 1736 Maronite Synod of Mount-Lebanon, which laid the foundations for the modern Maronite Church. During the works, Joseph Dergham clashed often with Giuseppe Simone Assemani, who presided it, due to the fact that the synod was going to limit the faculties of the Patriarch[3] giving more power to the other bishops. Actually a couple of years after the Synod, Joseph Dergham sent a petition to the Pope to support his views and to make void the decrees of the synod: after an investigation this petition was discarded and the synod confirmed. Joseph Dergham El Khazen died on May 13, 1742
Cheikh Malek Fady el Khazen (born in 1981) founder of khazen.org descendant of Chidiac Sarkis el Khazen (born in 1570) who is the common ancestor of most of the current members of the el khazen family has participated in the Genographic project by taking a sample of his DNA and sent it for test results to the labs of the scientist Spencer Wells lab. The result of this test is very important since it traces the paternal history (through 50 thousands years ago) of the majority of the members of the Khazen family. The results will be the exact same for every member of the Khazen family descendant of Chidiac Sarkis el Khazen (born in 1570) which is most of the khazen family.
Cheikh Malek Fady el Khazen has tested his Y chromosome, which is passed down from father to son and reveals the Khazen direct paternal ancestry up to 50 0000 years ago, therefore the Y chromosome will give the exact same result to all the Khazen Family members. In fact, the Y does not have a matching chromosome most of it (the non-recombining region) escapes the shuffling process known as recombination (between male and female) that occurs every generation in the rest of our genome. This allows the Y to be passed down through a purely male line changed only by random mutation line. In this test Cheikh Malek Fady el Khazen analyzed the Y chromosome which is a purely male line therefore a purely khazen descent.The results reveal our deep ancestry along our single paternal line of direct descent (and show the migration paths they followed thousands of years ago. The results will also place us on a particular branch of the human family tree. These results have confirmed our expectations of our history. This scientific study is first divided in a history and information of the geographic project and the second part describes in detail the DNA results of the el Khazen family and analysis
Time of Emergence: 10,000 years ago
Place of Origin: Fertile Crescent
Climate: Ice Age ending
Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: A few million
Language: Unknown
Tools and Skills: Neolithic
Their ancestors left a physical footprint that matches their genetic journey. Artifacts from ancient towns such as Jericho, also known as Tell el-Sultan, a site close to present day Jerusalem, provide evidence of permanent human settlements to around 8500 B.C. The sites also suggest the transition from hunter-gatherer to settled life occurred relatively suddenly.
The M172 marker defines a major subset of haplogroup J, which arose from the M89 lineage. It is found today in North Africa, the Middle East, and southern Europe. In southern Italy it occurs at frequencies of 20 percent, and in southern Spain, 10 percent of the population carries this marker. Both haplogroup J and its subgroup J2 are found at a combined frequency of around 30 percent amongst Jewish individuals
DEATH BY FUMIGATION:
We are in 1584, the emir Korkomaz son of Fakhreddine first, takes refuge in a cave and Jezzine is suffocated by fumigation because, unable to reach it, the command of Ibrahim Pasha Wali were turning noxious weeds at the entrance of the refuge. Sensing his certain death, he asks his wife to leave Nassab and to safety and her two children Fakhreddine Younes. She runs away, takes refuge in Deir el-Kamar in Sheikh Kiwan, business manager of her husband, and asked him to hide his children in Kesrouan confidence in people. At night and in secret, and sitt Nassab two little princes were taken to bubble and given to Ibrahim ibn el-Khazen Sarkis Chidiac, known as Ie name of Abu Sakr.
French traditions in Lebanon, published in 1918 in Paris, the consul of France Rene Ristelhueber wrote: "/ Von Khazen only carefully hid princely children, long ignorant of their noble birth, but they contributed a large part of their education. Together with their tutor Cheibani, also a Maronite, they cultivated the lively intelligence and the precocious young Fakhreddine
The municipality is located at a distance of about 36 km (22.3704 miles) from the capital Beirut. It lies at an altitude of 950 meters (1) (3116.95 ft - 1038.92 yd) sea level and covers an area of 461 hectares (4.61 km ² - 1.77946 mi ²), the population is abut 3500 almost all of them are maronite christians
location
At a distance of 25 km from the capital Beirut, in the heart center of keserwan maronite district ,Ghosta occupies the most beautiful site on the Bay of Jounieh is more like a runway.
With wet weather and fresh air redolent pine Arig, attracting holidaymakers in the summer season
About the name
they were many stories on the name of the town ,some of which say that it is distortionGreeck name "Augusta" and its meaning arrogance, greatness and pride,
anf for the historical novels who mentionned ghosta ,, where travelers Ernest Renan pointed out that "most of the coastal areas of Keserwan look Roman, and likeness of the names of villages out of Grecian and Latin, for example Ghousta".
It is anecdotally that match the original, that this region carried the name of the daughter in whose name Ougusreis Caesar invited Beirut "~ happy colony of Julia Augusta" Œ. She adds that the novel was the daughter of the Tsar to take Castle Ghosta her winter home and castle Beit Mery based summer.
According to some ancient references to that name is taken from King Philip Ogusti (Philippe Auguste)
monastery of mar shalita
Monastery of Mar Shalita located in the southeast of the town in the area known Ghosta land surrounded by forest trees and agricultural land sides by four.The construction of the monastery dates back to the year 1192 by the Under-King of France Philippe Auguste, who led one of the Crusades. It is said that the agent in the housing Ghosta (he established a great structure on the name of St. Shalita and decorated Balawjah priestly clothes and luxurious and infested with jellyfish and golden crosses in the corridors before the doors)
And as long as this structure until 1305 when the defeated the Mamluks in the third campaign to boycott kesrouan villages who was burnt but the church of Mar Shalita survived the devastation
the monastery remained abandoned until the year 1615 when he bought the land accountant Joseph Khoury located the remains of the temple, and after years of re-construction of the monaster
armenian monastery in ghosta
the Holy Monastery of the Nativity was the first monastery of Saint Anthony to be founded by the Armenian Assembly of Maronite Lebanese Missionaries 150 years ago .education
The village school values, including the subtle sense of taste and status and capacity of their imagination, they have a need they find comfort and stability, and in the remains of their ancestral land and their parents , In ghosta is located the prestigious school of ayn-warqa founded by the maronite patriarchy and the stephan family .our lady of victory
Our Lady of Victory monastery in Ghosta represents Youth.The Lebanese Maronite Order (LMO) started the building of the monastery in 1879. Work on the new building finished in 1882.
From the very start, this monastery was intended to gather the Youth of the LMO to unify the education and the formation. The student monks continued their philosophical and theological studies there until the beginning of the First World War in 1914.
In 1939, the monastery accommodated, again, the three categories of monastic Youth: applicants, beginners and the student-monks. Since that date, the various categories of Youth were transferred for many times to other places, But this monastery remained always the favorite.
From 1976 to 1995, it accommodated the category of the student monks of the secondary cycle. It currently brings together the applicants of the secondary cycle, last stage before the novitiates.
In 1989, a center for the religious culture for the young people of the area was created there, where courses of religious, biblical and theological formation are organized, as well as spiritual conferences, retirements and a training of the Syriac language, cultural and liturgical language of the Maronites and Syriacs.
The Congregation of Lebanese Maronite Missionaries (clmm) Kreimists
The Congregation of Lebanese Missionaries was founded by Rev Father Youhanna Habib. He was inspired by society's need for zealous priests, to attend to the spiritual welfare of faithful in dilemma.On 13 March 1865, Father Youhanna Habib purchased land and property in the valley of Ghosta-Kesrwan, which was to be Convent of Kreim. This provided the stepping stone which brought to him
On March 25, 1886, Father Kozah was appointed superior of the community as he was exemplary to his fellow missionaries.
Spirituality :
Self denial is perhaps the most prominent trait of any missionary. It is no different for the Kreimists. They are never to ask for payment or reward out of respect to Gods honour. They are called upon to be devoted whole heartedly to their spiritual duties and remain apathetic to political and social matters.
Obedience, poverty and brotherly love are the three virtues Father Youhanna Habib desired his missionaries to possess. These are indeed essential attributes to the success of the foundation.
Mission :
Rev Father Youhanna Habib established a code of conduct by which the missionaries must abide on both legal and spiritual level. This aided in demonstrating the missionaries independence to the community.
The Kreimists Missionaries do not believe in occupying their time in the confinement of the convent - living a hermit life style. Their vocation extends beyond that of even a priest, in that they are not only called to serve their parishioners, but rather, all Gods faithful.
The Kreimists support the concept of reaching out to the community and taking a practical approach to their faith, as opposed to silent worship. They are to be called to preach the word of God, along with unquestionably fulfilling their missionary duties
joseph dergham el khazen
Joseph V Dergham El Khazen (or Yusuf Dargham al-Khazin, Arabic: يوسف الخامس درغام الخازن, Latin: Ioseph Dargam Alchasen), was the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch from 1733 to his death in 1742.Joseph Dergham El Khazen was a member of the Khazen family and he was born in the village of Ghosta, in the Keserwan District, Lebanon. He married, and after the death of his wife he became priest. He was consecrated titular bishop of Ghosta in 1728 by the hands of patriarch Jacob Awad.[1] At the death of Jacob Awad, the electoral synod couldn't decide between two pretenders, so finally on February 25, 1733 he was elected for acclamation because of his influential family. The confirmation of his election by Pope Clement XII arrived on December 18, 1733.[2]
The reign of Joseph Dergham El Khazen is remembered for the 1736 Maronite Synod of Mount-Lebanon, which laid the foundations for the modern Maronite Church. During the works, Joseph Dergham clashed often with Giuseppe Simone Assemani, who presided it, due to the fact that the synod was going to limit the faculties of the Patriarch[3] giving more power to the other bishops. Actually a couple of years after the Synod, Joseph Dergham sent a petition to the Pope to support his views and to make void the decrees of the synod: after an investigation this petition was discarded and the synod confirmed. Joseph Dergham El Khazen died on May 13, 1742
Elie Stephan
Elie Stephan (alternatively Elie Estephane, born in Ghosta, Lebanon on July 10, 1986) is a professional Lebanese basketball player who is currently a member of Lebanese Basketball League team Champville SC. He is also a member of Lebanon national basketball team as a Shooting Guard. He's 1.91 m tall (6 ft 3 in)el khazen family
Khazen family History based on DNA resultsCheikh Malek Fady el Khazen (born in 1981) founder of khazen.org descendant of Chidiac Sarkis el Khazen (born in 1570) who is the common ancestor of most of the current members of the el khazen family has participated in the Genographic project by taking a sample of his DNA and sent it for test results to the labs of the scientist Spencer Wells lab. The result of this test is very important since it traces the paternal history (through 50 thousands years ago) of the majority of the members of the Khazen family. The results will be the exact same for every member of the Khazen family descendant of Chidiac Sarkis el Khazen (born in 1570) which is most of the khazen family.
Cheikh Malek Fady el Khazen has tested his Y chromosome, which is passed down from father to son and reveals the Khazen direct paternal ancestry up to 50 0000 years ago, therefore the Y chromosome will give the exact same result to all the Khazen Family members. In fact, the Y does not have a matching chromosome most of it (the non-recombining region) escapes the shuffling process known as recombination (between male and female) that occurs every generation in the rest of our genome. This allows the Y to be passed down through a purely male line changed only by random mutation line. In this test Cheikh Malek Fady el Khazen analyzed the Y chromosome which is a purely male line therefore a purely khazen descent.The results reveal our deep ancestry along our single paternal line of direct descent (and show the migration paths they followed thousands of years ago. The results will also place us on a particular branch of the human family tree. These results have confirmed our expectations of our history. This scientific study is first divided in a history and information of the geographic project and the second part describes in detail the DNA results of the el Khazen family and analysis
Khazen DNA results and history
Fast FactsTime of Emergence: 10,000 years ago
Place of Origin: Fertile Crescent
Climate: Ice Age ending
Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: A few million
Language: Unknown
Tools and Skills: Neolithic
Their ancestors left a physical footprint that matches their genetic journey. Artifacts from ancient towns such as Jericho, also known as Tell el-Sultan, a site close to present day Jerusalem, provide evidence of permanent human settlements to around 8500 B.C. The sites also suggest the transition from hunter-gatherer to settled life occurred relatively suddenly.
The M172 marker defines a major subset of haplogroup J, which arose from the M89 lineage. It is found today in North Africa, the Middle East, and southern Europe. In southern Italy it occurs at frequencies of 20 percent, and in southern Spain, 10 percent of the population carries this marker. Both haplogroup J and its subgroup J2 are found at a combined frequency of around 30 percent amongst Jewish individuals
Origin
Their origins are vague, they were nomads from the tribe of Ghassanids which, starting from the year 1100, moving between Damascus, Nablus, Houran Yammoune and eventually settling in Jaj, a small village above Jbeil . It was the grandfather of the family, the subdeacon Sarkis el-Khazen, that we owe the first clear evidence of the family: in fact, he translated the Gospel karchouni Arabic text written in Syriac - date of 1545. Sarkis el-Khazen of Jaj ships with her family bubble in Kesrouan and died in 1570 leaving two boys, and Sakr Abu Safi Abu Rabah, which are the two branches which come from all Khazen.DEATH BY FUMIGATION:
We are in 1584, the emir Korkomaz son of Fakhreddine first, takes refuge in a cave and Jezzine is suffocated by fumigation because, unable to reach it, the command of Ibrahim Pasha Wali were turning noxious weeds at the entrance of the refuge. Sensing his certain death, he asks his wife to leave Nassab and to safety and her two children Fakhreddine Younes. She runs away, takes refuge in Deir el-Kamar in Sheikh Kiwan, business manager of her husband, and asked him to hide his children in Kesrouan confidence in people. At night and in secret, and sitt Nassab two little princes were taken to bubble and given to Ibrahim ibn el-Khazen Sarkis Chidiac, known as Ie name of Abu Sakr.
French traditions in Lebanon, published in 1918 in Paris, the consul of France Rene Ristelhueber wrote: "/ Von Khazen only carefully hid princely children, long ignorant of their noble birth, but they contributed a large part of their education. Together with their tutor Cheibani, also a Maronite, they cultivated the lively intelligence and the precocious young Fakhreddine
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- http://www.khazen.org/
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