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Saint Charbel the Hermit of Lebanon
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Illustrated biography. Includes translations of addresses delivered by the Patriarch Paul Peter Cardioal and Pope Paul VI at Charbel Makhloufs beautification in 1965.
Saint CharbelThe Hermit of Lebanon[The Hermit of Lebanon][Photo Gallery][Bibliography][Listen to Min Deir Annaya in Real Audio 7][Maronite Saints]Click on any of the images to enlargeThe Saint Charbel is the first Confessor of the Eastern Church raised to the glory of the altars in modern times. He was born on 8 May 1828, in the village of Bkaakafra in the high mountains of Northern Lebanon from poor, but respectable and devout parents. He was the last of five children. Two brothers and two sisters were born before him into that blessed family.When he was baptised, he was given the name of Joseph.He learned a profound and sound piety from his parents and cultivated these seeds of sanctity with generous care.With continuous prayer, his life was inspired by detachment and denial of worldly vanities, always seeking interior and exterior solitude. At the age of twenty-three, he left home and became a novice at the Monastery of Our Lady of Mayfouq, north of Jbeil.Some time later he was transferred to the Monastery of Saint Maroun at Annaya. In 1853, after the two prescribed years of noviciate, he pronounced the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, choosing the name of Charbel who was an old Oriental martyr. Humility, Poverty and ChastityHis mother and other members of his family, having found his shelter, reached him and begged him to go back home.It was useless as he refused firmly and persisted with his vocation. He renounced the pleasure of seeing his home, his relations and even his mother for ever. He made up his mind to die to the world and to cut off all ties with it in order to devote himself completely to God, without any reserve.After pronouncing his solemn monastic vows, the Father Charbel was sent by his superiors to the Monastery of Cyprian and Justina at Kfifan to finish his religious studies. He was lucky to find two professors who were well known in the Order for their virtues and their theological and ascetical learning, namely the Reverend Father Nimitallah Al-Kafri and the Reverend Father Nimitallah Kassab Al-Hardini, (who is now counted amongst the Blessed.) Following the teaching and the example of these two outstanding Fathers, Saint Charbel laid in his heart the seeds of virtue and monastic perfection.Saint Charbel was ordained priest on 23 July 1859 at Bkerke. He then was sent back again to the Monastery of Saint Maroun in Annaya where he performed all his holy services in a very edifying way, while carrying on every kind of manual work. He accomplished all the duties of monastic life with deep humility, perfect obedience, strict poverty and heroic chastity that made him resemble an angel.The HermitageSaint Charbel had spent sixteen years of severe ascetic life always in prayer, mortification and self-denial. In 1875 his superiors permitted him to retire to the hermitage of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Annaya, which was two kilometres away from the Monastery of Saint Maroun.As a hermit, he did not live independently in the
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