The Maronite Church

Denomination·Founded 410 CE·est. ~3.5 million, well over half of them outside Lebanon — Brazil, Argentina, the United States and Australia.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → The Eastern Catholic Churches → The Maronite Church

The Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, Bkerke

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Mar Charbel.

Youssef Makhlouf entered the monastery at nineteen, took the name Charbel, and spent the last twenty-three years of his life as a hermit at Annaya, keeping silence and eating once a day. He died on Christmas Eve 1898 after a stroke at the altar. Cures reported at his tomb began within months, and the shrine now draws Muslims and Druze as well as Christians.

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Names & titlesMar Charbel; Saint Charbel Makhlouf
Domainhealing, silence, and the hermit life
Depicted asa hooded monk with his head bowed and his hands together, in the one photograph taken of him
Standinga hermit at Annaya who spoke little and died in 1898; canonised in 1977 and now the most visited shrine in Lebanon
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Charbel Makhlouf was born in 1828 in Bekaa Kafra, the highest village in Lebanon, entered the Lebanese Maronite Order, and from 1875 lived in the hermitage above the monastery of Saint Maron at Annaya. He kept the silence and the fasts, celebrated the Qurbono daily, and by all accounts did nothing else remarkable while alive. After his burial, lights were reported over his grave, the body was found incorrupt when exhumed, and cures were recorded and documented by the monastery. Paul VI beatified him in 1965 and canonised him in 1977. His shrine is a rare site in the region where Muslim and Druze visitors come in numbers alongside Christians, and the monastery keeps a register of reported cures.

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