Priest

History of the life of Khoury Paulus son of Khoury Ibrahim Daoud

Quoted from the date of the father of the late Khoury Ibrahim, who was born on the 29th of eastern June, corresponding to the year 1877 CE. A few days after I was born, a fight took place between Dar Muslim and Dar Umm Eid and five men were killed, three from Dar Umm Eid and two from Dar Muslim, who were my uncles. Then the bond between the carrier was severed, and every added family was reunited with its guest. Then from the fear that fell on the harem, my mother nursed me with fear milk, so it became like poison in my body, then raised me on the milk of a goat, then I was raised in the arms of my parents and I learned in the Roman school in Birzeit under the supervision of the teacher, Suleiman Al-Kailah, simple sciences. I always prayed with my father and had the gift of a melodious voice. And every year I returned to fear Thy flesh until I reached the age of 15, and I was a rabbi among my brothers like a stranger and broken-minded wearing shabby clothes. When I was fifteen, my father had to take me out of the Rum boarding school in Jerusalem, and they were my cousins. Whenever I was scattered, Ladenya was dragging me in front of the sheep, and I preached like weak goats. They carried me to the house and drenched me in bed until I recovered. I was brought up in this condition until we divided the livelihood and livestock, me and my brother, with our cousins. Then my brother Jacob went out of school and we lived and we received our share of the livelihood and livestock, me and my brother Yaqoub in the service of livelihood and cut off the sheep from a lack of care, then my father had to marry my brother Jacob in order to help my mother, then after a period of four years my father died and he died in January 1899 AD . Then, six years after my father’s death, I got married with the help of my brothers, Shehadeh and Yaqoub, from Salima bint Mansour Daoud, one of the daughters of our relatives in Dar Shaheen. We paid her dowry twice from her father. After I got married for two years, my brother Jacob traveled to America on October 10, 1906 A.D. and a soul came from America on February 24, 1930. So the concern of children, livelihood, and government expenses became required of me. So I went on this state for seven years while I was under the oppression of our harem “Saada” and “Salamah”, until I drank salt with my bowels until the calamity of the great war overran us, and the

government took me on the military and left the children and livelihoods and carried greater concerns, and the queue was the “bearer of the flies’s behalf” where we were We carry the livelihood of the soldiers from Jerusalem to Beersheba, and the government would have required all four people to carry two logs from the telegraph sacks and a bag of peeled wines. The lambs were at the government's risk, not the risk of the pregnant woman. No matter how everyone was carrying on this image, they would tie the bag of bread on its half and tie it to the half of the log on their shoulders, and the pregnant woman was not allowed to advance on the tree, but rather on the edges, and he would hit the officers if he advanced and surrounded the plank, and the bag was dangling an inch or more. And there was a (24) pound civilian in the bag, and if a person wanted to rent an animal and carry a load, he would take a double load. When the voice of the oppressed went up to the Lord, it turned them into a queue for his work, he started building roads from Jerusalem to the Suez Canal, a railway line, so God’s care was to turn the queue into action and alerted the government to every community that it elects an imam for the queue in order to perform prayer and the funeral of the dead, so I was elected from among the Christians present in The queue, and that the queue is going to take place at the Freedom Festival on July 11, 1915.

The commandos gathered with the sound of the trumpet and made a large shave for the whole line, then asked the Christian faces, then asked for the Chawishia, then the Ambashiya asked for a small haircut. And the Commander said, to the faces of the Christians, is this no one who was not elected by you is a faithful man from the dynasty of the priesthood and is able to fulfill the duties of religion. Then he told the officers that this man elected by the Christians for the sake of religious duties is an excluded man exempt from all work and only for religious duties. So they said to the Commander "Becky" and wished for him and he said to the Chawishian, this man is exempt from all work.

The Great World War began on July 12, 1914, and I took the military on the first of January in the east of 1915, and I took the military for a year and two months as an imam for the queue, and I took permission from the Commander to answer books about the Eid weather, and I used to pray regularly while I was the imam of the queue. A Turkish deceit and we used to separate it from the poor who were in the queue, so this work was good in the eye of the Commander, and after a not so long time, the Armenians were pressured and forced to enter the religion of Islam, and they took them in the queue and drove them to Beersheba until they complete their Islam. Then, after a short period of time, a warning was given to the Christians that they would become Islam and with you for 24 hours, you would answer the government, so they came to me in the chador and we remembered about this matter. When the appointed time had passed, I received a message from the Commander, so I went to him and asked me how to respond to the Christians with regard to Islam, so my answer to the Commander was thus: May God grant victory to the Sultan and support his state. The government alerted the general public to the military before we left Jerusalem and said that whoever says I am a Muslim or Christian or Mossadi is being punished by the government for an Ottoman army, justice, freedom and equality, and if this alerted the government, then where is justice and equality if the government forces us to convert to Islam? We left our children and livelihoods, offering ourselves to serve our country, preserving religion, honor and homeland. In response to the government's question, it is not possible for a single group to enter Islam with an armed man, except after his blood is shed. Then the Commander said, “This is your answer to the government. I told him this answer is not otherwise. Then the Commander gave an answer to the Commander of the Chol, Bahjat Bey, and his position was in Barr al-Sabaa, so the Commander told me that after four days there would be news, and I told him that God’s provision is greater and I departed from the front of the Commander to Shadri, and al-Hakim heard all this text because Shaderah is close to the Commander. He came to Chadri and thanked me for my answer because his Christian jealousy forced him. Then, after the specified period elapsed, the answer came telegraphically to Alkmandar, and this is the text of the government telegraph:

The government pardoned Tayyurashenji, who sacrificed his life on behalf of all Christians and gave rest for four days to all Christian soldiers, and after a short period a doctor sail was dispatched and he gave every wise person to bring out all the weak from the queue, so I told the wise man to remove all the weak Christians because they were in fact weak, and it was hostile. The column is 1400 Muslims, 800 Christians and 60 people are Jews. After this number came out of the queue, only 400 people remained from the queue, so the government decided to distribute the rest to the other queues, so it took permission from the Commander to answer books for the Eid ritual as mentioned above. When the children arrived and found them in a critical condition, then after the Passover holiday, I carried the children and children and went to Salt at our youth, the house of Bakhit Elias Al-Fakhoury from the Christians of Salt, accompanied by letters from my brother, the teacher Shehadeh, and I found them singles in Khirbet Gilad with their Tarsha, so we went with them to Gilad between our tents and your tents.

The family fell ill with typhus, and I took it on the strength and wisdom of God, so I tasted humiliation. And after the family was happy, we returned with them and we were picking up water between their crops, then when the time for grapes came, we went to the house of Ayyub al-Karmi from Bakhit Elias’s relatives on the vineyards, and there we served them a great service and they despised us and ate our agar, and our needs and our boilers that we collected in the summer days remained with them. In Khirbet and it was in the days of grapes, then we bought a donkey, and the family used to pack grapes and they would call the country and cities to collect crops for their children, because we have two sons: Sweet and Saba. Then, what was left of the grapes we roasted is yogurt and the government took 80 pounds of Barawi. Then after we studied the olives, I took dirhams and rode a donkey and went to buy grain from Lod with some people from our town. Then, after we bought grain, we decided to go to the country, and the British military prevented us because the government of the Englishmen had occupied the western coast, so I stayed in Lod and Ramla for two months, and the children in Birzeit were in a critical state of pressure from the Turkish government on the people. My wife was bearing a boy while I was confined to Lod, and they drove her while she was postpartum, and they did not care about birth and childbirth, and they looted all the furniture and food they found in the houses. Then after they occupied Jerusalem and Ramallah, I went on the Jerusalem on foot, and Jacob, my cousin, accompanied me on the road. Khoury Ibrahim, then after we reached Jerusalem, we wrapped up with my brother, the teacher, Shehadeh, because when Jerusalem was occupied, he lived in it and completed there and served us for dinner with a boiled lupine, because living was cut off from the city at the time of the occupation and hunger was severe.

Then we offered the bread that was with us and dined, and when the morning came we went to the market until we could find a livelihood, but we did not find, because the city was empty without a world, because I walked from the Hebron Gate to the Column Gate, but I did not find a person, so I feared for myself, and I and Jacob, my cousin, went to Ramallah with the government animals with armies The British did not encounter any of the people of the country. We arrived in Ramallah and wrapped us in with Ibrahim Abu Salama al-Khoury Abd al-Nur. He welcomed us and offered us food at his home and inquired about the state of the country and we understood the situation completely. Then we went to the military governor and took a pass from him and did not oppose us from the British army. It was midnight that we left Ramallah and went to Birzeit, and the weather was a light winter, and we walked barefoot like thieves, and it was dark. When we arrived, the last army of the Englishmen caught us and returned us a great distance to Alkmandar. He examined our condition and left, then we went to Birzeit. When we reached the edge of the country, we entered the house of Sulaiman Al-Aranaki. About the truth and we understood about the situation completely, so we warned all Christians to go to the English in Ramallah and otherwise, so that one third of the people fled that night and the second night followed the rest and We took our children and our children and went on the farm and risked ourselves because the Turkish army was sick in the lands of the country in abundance and after all the hardship and trouble we reached the village of the farm and slept in the Yusef Abu Nawas machine on the peat and the second day we traveled from the farm to the village of Ni'lin with a large army of people, so we slept in Baalban And on the third day we went to Lod, and we arrived in the evening, so I stopped them at the door of the Al-Khidr Church and appeared at the head in the monastery of Lod. The ruler knew a Greek language, and the president was a translator, who was on the tendency of the president to take care of him, and I was one of the lover of the president because he had a previous friendship. We are given an appointment and a place to sleep in, so we got straight for a month, then we left on Jaffa.

Then I got ready for cultivation for the second year, and I bought a tenth cow for the price of 15 Egyptian pounds. I took a debt from the preachers of Ibn Salama Abu Maratha. I took twenty pounds from him for twenty-five a year. At that time, my election became from the people of Ain Arik, and they made a set-piece and sealed it, and Salim al-Saad went in with it, and he entered with the Patriarch Damianus, and he fulfilled his request. One of the people of Ein Arik and my brother Gerasmus, who lived in Jerusalem and taught at the School of Knowledge, and was the laborer of the Patriarch and the monks. Then the deacon was made on Christmas Eve at one o'clock and midnight on New Year’s Eve in 1920. A deacon was drawn by Archbishop Nkodmus on the Holy Tomb And I ordained a priest at the hand of Bishop Sophronius on the grave also before he became upset with the Patriarch, then he told me that my partner had fought the cow and its son had died in its womb, so I said I would go to God, and I went to the eyes of Arik. Ibrahim, my nephew, Blira and David Shehadeh, promised me two lira, and the Patriarch gave me three liras, and my brother Grasmus helped me with the narration and worked with the monks, and he did what was necessary. At noon we wrapped us on the eye of Arik at 3 pm. We wrapped us in the hallway of the church so that they would not permit us to people because they were corrupted together, and we finished in the church hallway until seven in the evening. He raided us and took us on his house and made us a nest of Mujaddara and we ate the one in which we had a share. Then we went to Salim Abu Saad’s house and slept with him and broke our fast in the morning and went to the town.

After four months of this incident, in the end of May, east of 1921, corresponding to Monday at three in the afternoon, I wanted to write a letter, so I had a small pictorial with feathers in it, so I held it until I took a feather from it, so the Arab feather did not fall, so I grabbed a hook that was on the table and the photographer got up in my hand and was executed From my hand three fingers, then the Fermashani Yaqoub the Jew came and took me with him, cut the blood, and blindfolded me, and as soon as Habib al-Khoury and Khamis Mujadara took me and rode me on his donkey and they went with me on the government’s spreads in Ramleh and as soon as the operation started and they delivered me and did the operation, so you rested for twenty days and they did not take anything from me and served me a good service. Free and he sat for 15 days in Asbatar and they did not take nor righteousness. After I had departed from the government’s spreads, they met the Christians of Lod with some of them, and they collected five liras for us, and they worked with me a special favor.

Then, two years after I went to Lod, my dear brother Ananias and his brother’s lover rose up against me in the week of Eid, the Sabbath of Passion, and the day of Easter was a bitter day. And they were spreading corruption in the spirit of the Christians, until al-Tayfa was divided into two parts, and the leader of the first row became Jeris al-Habash, Habb al-Khoury, his brother Hanania, Nauman al-Asbah, and Jeris al-Asmar and their followers, and the head of the second row was Issa Yusef Rizk and his followers, his brother Salim and Salim al-Hilta, Dar Hanna, Dar Azar, and their followers. Then the evil escalated between the two rows, and the first row, President Yelos, won the second row, the Curate Paulus, and Bishop Miletus helped the evil. After a short period, they released President Peleus from the center of Lod, and on June 24 I went to Jerusalem at the Patriarch and I told him about the situation in Lod and the Patriarch said to me it is better that you are You go to Birzeit, and after two months we see if we return you to your position or appoint you to another center, then as soon as I went to Lod and went to my hawaiji and I did not find a single man from my class opposing in my entertainment, and after I went to Birzeit on June 20, 1926, and relieved of their evil, I fell into trouble Greater than Khoury Issa, then we built the house, and the general Christians helped us to contract the house, and we lived in it on August 10, 1926. In the last period before our departure from Lod they requested the house of Hanna, and after two years the marriage became on Sunday 28/5/1928 East, and the crown became in our house in the presence of The people of our town and the people of the bridegroom from Lod. They dotted the girl, all of the people of Birzeit, and I am grateful from them all. Then on the fifth day of August 1928 came a news from the Patriarch that had changed his color and he told me you want to go to Ain Arik, so I told him that I cannot live in Ain Arik, so he saidFor me, this is how I post. If you obey, cut off your pension.

I got up from him, angry, and the translator was between me and the Patriarch Theodorus, then we consulted with a friend of the monks and among them was a friend, and he advised me to go back to the Patriarch for a second return, and I found him insisting on his first opinion, and the President of the Patriarch Turklesus was present with him, so the conversation with him took place, so he ordered me to rent the house for 12 pounds. And due to the respect of his Blessedness, I accepted to go forcibly, then they made a coup for the people of Birzeit and came to the Patriarch and presented him with the beatings, so they threw it on the ground, and the conversation with him became ferociously, and they came out from him in anger. Jesus, the members of the association, complained about them in the Magistrate’s Court in Ramallah, so the government asked them and the government officer came to Birzeit and conducted the investigation, but he did not find evidence on the defendant. The account of the monastery, and after a short period of the journey of the priest Jesus to Jaffa and the key in his house with his representative, Professor Boutros, he returned the church utensils and threw the key at the house of the priest Ibrahim, then the priest Ibrahim went On Saturday morning, he went to the church because he was absent in Ramleh and he was confined to the wedding of Ibn Ishaq Al-Abdullah, Abu Martha. He found the church’s utensils on the table and gave a report to the sect and on the second day the government officer came from Ramallah and took the testimony of the priest Ibrahim and went to Ramallah and the priest Ibrahim went to Ramla and Birzeit was completed without a priest and the church was intoxicated, then they wrote a protest from the Orthodox Club to the Patriarch and the safety of the Kaileh was present in Jerusalem, so the Khoury asked Jesus from the monastery because the inclination of the Keela House was with the Khoury Issa and they served his ideas, then Khoury Jesus came to Birzeit, so some of them refused to go to The Church asked the president, Jeremiah the Khoury, on the second day, but he did not fulfill their request, and after a while, His Beatitude the Patriarch blessed the priest Jesus with a needle and a cross, and he wore a needle and a cross from their home to the church, quarrelsome in the upset sect, then the sect began to dissolve one by one, especially his relatives who were affected by him, so people are very volatile. Because they did not love anyone but upset their relatives, then these people followed Isaac Abdullah and Jesus Al-Qassis, who were leaders of the sect and reconciled with the priest Jesus without intermediary.

We have written this article for the purpose of preserving it, and it is a glimpse of ancient Greek history, written by Professor Shehadeh Khoury Ibrahim from the village of Birzeit, and this text is as follows:

Intolerance was the cause of all resentment, strife and a cause for every loss and division. The Slavic patriarchs were independent and the center of the Serb Patriarchate was the city of Apec and the Bulgarian Patriarchate of Tarnovo, and the Macedonian Slavs had an independent Xerchus and its position was unique. The Bulgarian Patriarchate in the year 3931, Sultan Mustafa III annexed the Patriarchate of the Serbs and Axarchus of Makedonia to the Patriarchate of the Phanar in the year 7671, and the Turks were forcing the subjects of these dioceses to submit to the Greek clergy despite their noses and to establish their religious rituals and prayers in the Greek language of the Archdiocese, which they are ignorant of the Church. Ambrose took the Metropolitan of Constantinople and entered the Church of the Savior in the city of Ascop accompanied by the Ottoman soldiers on Christmas Eve in the year 6681 AD. He expelled the Slavic clergy and held the Holy Mass in the Greek language. It raged its fire in 5781 AD and ate green The Slavs won civil and church independence as well, and the result of Greek fanaticism was affliction and loss for the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Ottoman State as well.

In response to the article of Professor Issa Al-Issa, owner of Palestine newspaper, in the issue of 42/2/4391 under the title “Will history repeat itself in the Levant”. In the year 2761 the Antiochean See was emptied with the death of the Patriarch, and in an unpleasant way, a young man named Kyrollos, no more than twenty years old, installed in him. The sect split up and installed another patriarch, and Cyril began to visit the Roman missionaries. And they replaced him with another patriarch named Athanasius, then Cyril was reinstated in the same way that he was deposed, so the Pope sent a letter on January 9, 6171 praising him, and he sent his confession of the principles of Rome, and the answer came to him on May 21, west of 8171, with satisfaction from him even though he was not loyal to Romans. To seek her help, he died an Orthodox, and was succeeded by Athanasius, the aforementioned Patriarch and the second team appointed Seraphim Senas patriarch in the name of Cyril. The Roman says that his handsomeness was not legal and that he was secretly painted in a cave, so they do not consider the Roman Catholic handsome as legal handsome. The Roman Catholic community at this time became an excellent sect, and for the sake of preserving its existence it suffered fiery persecutions until the days of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, who had singled out those close to him, Bahri Bey, the Catholic sect.

Bulletin No. 186
A demon-possessed healing marvel

When they sat me in the main corridor of the church and the Khawars crossed over the house of Abu Dayya, so they sat until ten o'clock while I was thrown in the hallway of the church like a bloody man, then they left from them upset and the president saw for me a swimmer's house in which I live in rent, so I lived for three months and the aforementioned chief went to the Patriarch and told him the case then After we fasted the fasts of the apostles, the Patriarch sent me a written letter immediately, I came to the Patriarch and said to me, I want to send you to Lod, so I told him your matter, so he gave me a letter to President Mians and he gave me seven Egyptian pounds, so I went on that day, corresponding to the 12th of the eastern month of June, 1920, and I was all flat On Monday, February 12, in the morning of 1920, a Muslim woman called me, and she was blotted out by the unclean spirit, so I took the book of Al-Afkhology, Al-Battarsila, the little cross, an incense molar and a wax, and I went with him to his house Many groups of Islam men, women and sheikhs are waiting for my presence. When I entered the sanctuary, I asked her about her condition and what had brought you to this state. She said: I was buying laundry on the roof of the house. I lost a shirt from the laundry, so I asked our neighbor Umm Issa, a Christian, and she insulted me as well, so I insulted the cross and hibernated Muhammad, and after we exiled some of us, I descended from the roof, so I felt something that made me torment me night and day and asked me for the (unemployed) time. A month ago I was like this, and they used to answer to me the sheikhs knocking on the kit and he was not afraid of them, but he used to snore at them and dismiss them and tell them I am not afraid of you, if he was a Christian Khoury he could get me out. This is the hadith of sanctity to me. I said to her, I am coming to pray to you. Do you believe that my prayer will heal you? She said to me, "A blessing, O father. Then I put on the basil, and I held the cross in my right hand, and the candle was lit, the tooth of incense was over the fire, and I opened the book and began to pray in Basilus' quarrels, and I put the shoes on the head of the sacred sanctuary, and when I heard the words of the essence, the burning soul was thrown at the head of the sanctuary." With an unclean spirit, and I swore to him, and his hadith with me was saying: I came from the country of Sudan, I was a rogue that I heard because of her love, what came out of her, I told him that I am coming from my master Jesus Christ, who brought out seven demons from Mary Magdalene, who raised Lazarus after four days. The one who opened the eyes of the blind, who healed the deposed, the one who healed the bleeding of blood, I strongly commanded you to come out of it, he told me I am a Muslim I do not come out of it I want to enter it, I told him by the power of Christ, our master Jesus, by your command to come out of it, do not say a lot, and if I came out in a pocket The spear of Christ by slaughtering you in front of everyone, he told me I want a veil. Her stomach or her womb, I said to him from her left leg and take out what is on you is a way but her left leg. Soon her leg extended the sanctity and swelled and screamed a loud voice and kept silent for ten minutes without moving while I was reading and I was covered with holy water, I shouted the house and repented, and then I prayed Our Master Jesus, and kissed the cross with my hand, then I went to the sanctuary, which is from it, and hung a small cross on her neck instead of a veil wrapped in her pocket.