populous place carried off the
treasure, and built to his honor a spacious church over his tomb, to
which a monastery was adjoined, which seems to have been the monastery
of St. Maro in the diocese of Apamea.[2]

Footnotes:
1. St. Chrys. ep. 36.
2. It is not altogether certain whether this monastery near Apamea, or
another on the Orontes, between Apamea and Emesa, or a third in
Palmyrene, (for each of them bore his name,) possessed his body, or
gave name to the people called Maronites. It seems most probable of
the second, the abbot of which is styled primate of all the
monasteries of the second Syria, in the acts of the second council
of Constantinople, under the patriarch Mennas, in 536, and he
subscribes first a common letter to pope Hormisdas, in 517. The
Maronites were called so from these religious, in the fifth century,
and adhered to the council of Chalcedon against the Eutychians. They
were joined in communion with the Melchites or Loyalists, who
maintained the authority of the council of Chalcedon. The Maronites,
with their patriarch, who live in Syria, towards the seacoast,
especially about mount Libanus, are steady in the communion of the
Catholic church, and profess a strict obedience to the pope, as its
supreme pastor; and such has always been the conduct of that nation,
except during a very short time, that they were inveigled into the
Greek schism; and some fell into Eutychianism, and a greater number
into Nestorianism; they returned to the communion of the Catholic
church under Gregory XIII. and Clement VIII., as Stephen Assemani
proves, (Assemani, Act. Mart. t. 2, p. 410,) against the slander of
Eutychius in his Arabic Annals, which had imposed upon Renaudot. The
Maronites keep the feast of St. Maro on the 9th, the Greeks on the
14th of February. The seminary of the Maronites at Rome, founded by
Gregory XIII. under the direction of the Jesuits, had produced
several great men, who have exceedingly promoted true literature
especially the Oriental; such as Abraham Eckellensis, the three
Assemani, Joseph, Stephen Evodius, and Lewis, known by his Judicious
writings on the ceremonies of the church. The patriarch of the
Maronites, styled of Antioch, resides in the monastery of Canabine,
at the foot of mount Libanus; he is confirmed by the pope, and has
under him five metropolitans, n