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THE JACOBITES with Protestant missionaries. Returning to Syria he had already begun to agitate against the use of holy pictures, and otherwise

FIG. 12. — THE JACOBITE PATRIARCH MÂR IGNĀTIUS 'ABDULLAH SATTUF.

spread Protestant ideas when, as a result of some obscure quarrel, he surprised everyone by turning Uniate in 1896. He was a Syrian Uniate for nine years, and held the Uniate see of Ḥomṣ. Then, in 1905, he went back to the Jacobites, received again his see of Diyārbakr and a promise of the Patriarchal throne, when it should be vacant. Soon after, in 1906, the former Patriarch, Ignatius 'Abdulmasīḥ, was deposed and went to Malabar. In spite of the promise it cost Sattuf much intrigue and £T350