Iraq
Notable Catholic Saints
St. Thomas the Apostle (evangelized Mesopotamia), St. Mari (disciple of Thomas, first bishop of Babylon), the Martyrs of the Chaldean Church (countless across history)
Middle East
Iraq
The cradle of civilization is also the cradle of the Chaldean Catholic Church — a community that traces its roots to the Apostle Thomas and has survived twenty centuries of history, but may not survive another generation after ISIS systematically destroyed Christian life in the Nineveh Plains.
Iraq
Notable FEAST DAYs
Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle (Jul 3); major Chaldean liturgical feasts in the ancient East Syriac rite; Our Lady of Perpetual Help feast
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