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9:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.           Activities of the General Secretary of the Synod of Bishops, Cardinal Mario Grech, in Bkerki.

4:00 p.m.                               Caretaker  Minister of Culture, Mohammad Mortada, sponsors a ceremony in honor of national figures.

6:30 p.m.                            Reception organized by Italian Ambassador, Nicoletta Bombardiere, on the occasion of her country’s National Day, at the Sursock Palace in Beirut.

6:30 p.m.                          Mass marking the Golden Jubilee of the Maronite Patriarchal Seminary’s League of Elders celebrated by Maronite Patriarch, Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi, in the outer courtyard of the seminary in Ghazir.

==============================R.H.