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Patriarch Benyamin Mar Shimun as a young man

Date: 20th century

Portrait of the young Patriarch Benyamin Mar Shimun in a striped cloak with a cross-embroidered sash. A Syriac inscription is printed in the upper left. Photograph by the Rev. F. N. Heazell of the Archbishop's Mission.

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Fortescue, The Lesser Eastern Churches (1913), via Internet Archive (University of Toronto copy)

Adrian Fortescue (author) · Published 1913 in London; public domain.

Patriarch Benyamin Mar Shimun as a young man

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