Baladites
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Baladites (or Valadites, known also as the Lebanese Maronite Order), is a monk order among the Levantine Catholic Maronite Church, which from the beginning has been specially a monastic Church. The order was founded in 1694 in the Monastery of Mart Moura, Ehden, Lebanon.
Its name comes from the Arabic baladiyah (Arabic: الرهبنة البلدية ), 'country' monks. It is one of the two Lebanese congregations of Saint Anthony the Great monks alongside the Aleppians(or halabiyyah), monks of Aleppo, a city in present Syria, antonym of baladiyah. Pope Clement XIV sanctioned this separation in 1770.
A third Lebanese monks order is that of Saint Isaiah, known as the Antonine Order.
For the history of the Baladites, please consult the history section on the website of the Monastery of Saint Anthony of Qozhaya, Milestones in the history of the Lebanese Maronite Order
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- This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. Eastern Monasticism
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