Elias Chamoun, A delegation of Maronite nuns are getting ready to send the Patriarch of the Maronite Church, Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, a petition signed by over one thousand Maronite nuns, in which they ask him to stop receiving any foreign representative that does not visit or consult with the Lebanese president on Lebanese affairs in an attempt to boycott him. The delegation views the president as the political representative of the Maronite nation, and a boycott on his person means a boycott on the Lebanese Maronite nation as a whole. In the petition, the delegation asks the Patriarch to preserve the sanctity of the Maronite presidency, even if the Patriarch doesn’t necessarily condone the politics of the person occupying it. In short, the delegation views that an attack on and a boycott of the Lebanese Maronite president, is an attack on and a boycott of the Maronite nation (even if the majority of the Maronite nation doesn’t always see eye to eye with the president).