Blessed Elias Peter Hoayek: Maronite Patriarch and Father of Greater Lebanon

Blessed Elias Peter Hoayek was Maronite Patriarch of Antioch from 1899 to 1931. He founded the Maronite Sisters of the Holy Family, led relief efforts during the First World War famine, and argued at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference for an enlarged Lebanon. He was beatified in 2026.