Oriental Orthodox Communion

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    “The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.”
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    “If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
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