Built by the Capuchin Fathers around the 1890s, it is dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua and has seen many Capuchin fathers carry out their missions from Baabdath, notably Blessed Abouna Yaacoub, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Cross, as well as that the two Martyrs Father Leonard Melki (1915) and Father Thomas Saleh (1917) both executed in hatred of the faith, during the Armenian genocide. Their Beatification cause was successful in 2022, they are the new glorious Martyrs of Baabdath and Lebanon. On the occasion of their beatification, the Order of Malta Lebanon contributed to the construction of the Oratory of the newly beatified within the parish Church which has become a point of prayer for members of the Order who wish collect there. Brother Leonard Melki Born in Baabdath (Lebanon) in 1881, his father Habib Melki and his mother Noura Yammine gave him the name Joseph. He entered the Order of Capuchins where he received the name Leonard. He made his Solemn Profession on July 1, 1903 and was ordained a priest on December 4, 1904. Sent to Mesopotamia, he was in charge of schools and workshops belonging to his Order. He was also an advisor to the Secular Franciscan Order and the Brotherhood of the Precious Blood. He knew Arabic, French, Italian, Syriac, Turkish, Armenian and Latin. The Turks arrested him in his convent of Mardine, threw him in prison, where he was tortured physically and psychologically, while devoting himself to his companions, serving and consoling them. At the head of a caravan of more than 400 people, he was taken to feet outside of Mardine. No threat or seduction made him succumb. His union with Jesus Christ and his Church remained unwavering until the end. Along the way, under the hand of Turkish soldiers, he fell martyr at dawn on Friday June 11, 1915. The beatification of Brother Leonard took place in June 2022. Brother Thomas Saleh Born in Baabdath (Lebanon) on May 3, 1879. After his studies in Baabdath, he entered the Order of Capuchins in 1897. He studied in Constantinople then in Boudja near Izmir (Smyrna) in Turkey. Ordained priest on December 4, 1904. He was assigned in May 1906 to the mission of Mesopotamia where he worked continuously until his death. Professor, educator, polemicist, preacher, he stood out for his common sense and his insight in the analysis of the Machiavellian and Freemason policies of the Young Turks. During the massacres of 1915 where 1,500,000 Christians perished, he was arrested in Diarbekir, then deported to Orfa and sentenced to death for hiding an Armenian priest chased by the police. He had them driven in the middle of winter through the snow, with insults and mistreatment from the soldiers. He died en route, suffering from typhus in January 1917 at the age of 38 with admirable feelings of piety. His cause for beatification was successful in June 2022. Massacred along with Blessed Ignace Maloyan, bishop of Mardine on June 11, 1915.