"The name of Maronite they inherited from the Syriac monk named Maro, who lived on the bank of the Orontes about A.D. 400, but other historians say that this nomenclature was given to them from the name of one of their patriarchs called Marun or Maro, who was ruling over the see of Antioch in A.D. 700. They are no doubt descended from the ancient Arameans commonly called Syrians..."