President Aoun thanked the Supreme Pontiff for the beatification of the two martyred young Fathers, Leonard and Thomas of Baabdat.

​President Aoun: "This celebration confirms to the whole world that Lebanon is still at the heart of the Church's concerns and will remain the homeland of holiness".

President Aoun congratulated the Capuchin Order.

President Aoun: "We ask for their intercession for Lebanon to take it to the paths of resurrection, the two whose lives have identified with its history. We ask that they be a living example for the youth of Lebanon today to be attached to the homeland - the mission and testimony of its values ​​to the ends of the earth".

President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, thanked His Holiness, Pope Francis, for fulfilling a dear wish for the Lebanese, by declaring the two martyred parents, from the town of Baabdat, Leonard Awais Melki and Thomas Saleh, as blessed at the altars of the Church, in a solemn ceremony to be held this afternoon for this purpose.

President Aoun said: "With great gratitude and on behalf of all the Lebanese, I cannot but thank His Holiness Pope Francis, because through this celebration, he assures the whole world that Lebanon is still at the center of the Church's concerns, and it will remain the homeland of holiness whose peaks embrace the sky, and whose blessed and saints are encrusted".

The President addressed the Supreme Pontiff with prayers for health, wishing to fulfill his desire to visit our country, so that the Lebanese would show him the extent of their love and attachment to it.

President Aoun also welcomed the presence of Cardinal Semeraro to Lebanon, representing Pope Francis, and wished to convey to His Holiness a clear picture of the values ​​of faith and living together that he adheres to.

In addition, President Aoun addressed the Capuchin Order to which the two new saints belong, and to the town of Baabdat, their birthplace, with a hearty congratulations, and said: "Between your monastic orders and the town of Baabdat (the House of Worship) there is a procession of prayer and a union of faith culminated in testimonies of giving and even martyrdom for the sake of faith.

In the name of this march, and in the hope of the continuity of its pulse, we ask for the intercession of the two new blessed, for Lebanon to carry it to the paths of resurrection, the two who experienced pain and blood until their lives became identifiable with its history, and to be a living example for the youth of Lebanon today, of attachment to the homeland - the message and testimony to its values ​​to the ends of the earth.

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