HOW ONE PRIEST SINGLEHANDEDLY RESCUED THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF ARAMAIC MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE ISLAMIC STATE.
In 2007, threatening letters arrived at the Dominican monastery in Mosul.
Each envelope contained a broken cross & a bullet.
Father Najeeb Michaeel's name was on a hit list.
Instead of leaving, his work began. Every morning before dawn, he dressed in civilian clothes and drove his old car to Mosul, moving the monastery's manuscripts 30km away.
Alone, box by box, a multi-month operation.
The collection dated back to the 9th century.
When ISIS ways days away from taking Mosul in August 2014, he did it again. By an act of God, within weeks of ISIS' descent on Mosul, he moved the ancient documents.
Two cars full of manuscripts & 16th-century books. Aramaic manuscripts from the 9th century: Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Yezidi. A millennium of civilization in the Nineveh Plain.
They drove east through the night. At a checkpoint, a young girl pointed at the horizon. When they cleared the last checkpoint, Najeeb said:
"I think the Virgin Mary had a hand to protect us."
When he returned to Mosul after liberation, the monastery had been used as a weapons warehouse.
The library was destroyed. The clock tower, donated by the Empress of France in 1876, the first clock in Iraq, was stripped and stolen.
A gallows stood where the altar once was.
In 2019, the Church made him Archbishop of Mosul. He now oversees 8,000+ digitized manuscripts from 105 collections across Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. He saved our history.
Remember his name & pray for his continued work.
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