Pierre Gemayel
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Pierre Amine Gemayel, also spelled Jmayyel, Jemayyel or al-Jumayyil, was a Lebanese political leader. A Maronite Catholic, he is remembered as the founder of the Kataeb Party, as a parliamentary powerbroker, and as the father of Bachir Gemayel and Amine Gemayel, both of whom were elected to the presidency of the republic in his lifetime.
Pierre Gemayel (far right) prior to the friendly game in Beirut against Austrian club Admira Vienna in 1937
Pierre Gemayel (right) with William Hawi (left), Chief of the Kataeb Security Council
The Sheikh Pierre Gemayel Memorial, in Gemayel's hometown Bikfaya, Lebanon
Maronites
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Maronites are a Syriac Christian ethnoreligious group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant region of West Asia, whose members traditionally belong to the Maronite Church, with the largest concentration long residing near Mount Lebanon in modern Lebanon. The Maronite Church is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church in full communion with the pope and the rest of the Catholic Church.
Maronite villagers building a church in the region of Mount Lebanon, 1920s.
Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral Brooklyn in New York City.
Lebanon religious groups distribution.
An estimate of the area distribution of Lebanon's main religious groups.