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PROFESSOR JOSEPH PATRICK PRESENTS HIS BEATITUDE WITH A BOOK IN HIS HONOUR

On Friday morning, February 1/14, 2020, Dr. Joseph Patrick, Professor of the University of Haifa and Jerusalem in Archaeology,  who has studied in depth the life of our Holy Father Savvas the Sanctified and is the writer of the book “Sabs the Leader of the Palestine Monasticism” by Dumbarton Oacks publications, offered His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos the book which hs been published in His honour with the title: “BETWEEN SEA AND DESSERTS: ON KINGS, NOMADS, CITIES AND MONKS”, by Orit Peleg-Barkat, Jakob Ashkenazi, Uzi Leibner, Mordehai Aviam, and Rina Talgam.

His Beatitude thanked Dr. Patrick for his studious work on the life of St. Savvas and wished him strength in his research.

Simultaneously, His Beatitude received His Eminence Metropolitan Cyril of Ekaterinenburg, whom He had visited two years ago in his Metropolis with a group of His clergy.

From Secretariat-General