Melike Cardinal Patriarch of Antioch. Born in then Ottoman ruled Aleppo, Amine Rizkallah Saigh, sometimes listed as Sayegh, received his first education there until moving to Jerusalem where he entered seminary. Joining the Missionary Society of Saint Paul in 1905, founded two years before by Msgr. Germanos Mouaccad, he was ordained priest that same year in Roumieh, Lebanon, he was soon appointed to the teaching faculty of St. Anne's seminary in Jerusalem. Preaching missions and retreats, Msgr. Mouaccad named him to aid the Synod of the Greek Melkite Curch in Ain Traz in 1908. Elected superior general of the Paulist Fathers in 1912, he was named archbishop of Tyr of the Melkites in 1919, receiving his episcopal consecration in Damascus on August 30 that year. Appointed apostolic visitor to the Catholic Greek Melkite communities in North America and successively to all Melkite religious congregations across the globe by the Holy See, he was transferred to the metropolitan see of Beirut and Gibail of the Melkites in 1933. Founding the religious congregation of the "Sœurs Missionnaires de Notre Dame du Perpétuel Secours" in Harissa, Lebanon, in 1935 with the help of his fellow Paulist Fathers, in recognition he was named assistant at the Pontifical Throne by Pope Pius XII in 1943. Elected Melkite patriarch of Antioch by the Synod of Bishops of the Melkite Church, October 30, 1947, he was confirmed by the named Pope the following year taking the name of Maximos IV. The Patriarch rose to a worldwide prominence during the Second Vatican Council after defending the Eastern tradition of Christianity, which earned him the respect Eastern Orthodox observers present at the named Council. Pope Paul VI created him cardinal in the consistory of February 22, 1965. Having refused the offer three times on the grounds that "for a Patriarch to accept a cardinalate is treason", a Motu Proprio issued by the Pope ten days before the named consistory decreed decreed that Eastern Patriarchs elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals would belong to the order of cardinal bishops without forming part of the Roman clergy retaining their very own patriarchal sees as their cardinalitial titles. This issue from the Pope changed Patriarch Maximos's mind and thus made him accept the cardinalitial offer. Patriarch Maximos died of cancer in Beirut two years later. His embalmed body was temporarily buried following the celebration of a grand funeral in the vault reserved for patriarchs and bishops beneath sacristy of the cathedral of Damascus. Three years later, in accordance with his wishes, his remains were transferred to mother house of the "Sœurs de Notre-Dame du Perpétuel Secours" which he had built in Harissa, Lebanon.