PhotographAA-0632

Patriarch Mar Shimun on the front page of the Illustrated London News, 1933

Date

1933

Front page of the Illustrated London News of 26 August 1933 with a full-length photograph of the young Patriarch Mar Eshai Shimun XXI in cassock and pectoral cross. The caption reports his deportation from Baghdad by air to Cyprus after he refused to sign a declaration of loyalty, and the killing of Assyrians in the events that followed.