A brief biography of the martyr of the nation and the church, Mar Benjamin Shimon, the twenty-first, descendant of the noble Shimon family (1887-1918)

By: Rev. Yoel Warda* Translated by: Professor Yoarch Hedo Mar Shimon Benjamin, Patriarch of the Apostolic Church of the East, was thirty-one years old when he was assassinated. Mar Binyamin Shimon was born in the village of Kochanis in the Hakyari Province of Turkey in 1887. His father, Ishi, was from the patriarchal family. His mother, Asit, was the daughter of Qanbar, an Assyrian leader who was a deacon in the Assyrian Church of the East. He r…