On his first apostolic journey abroad, Pope Leo XIV will travel to Lebanon, where he will visit the tomb of St. Sharbel, the 19th-century Maronite monk and hermit who is revered for his piety and a ...
Family donates monument to Maronite hermit in thanksgiving for miraculous healing. Above, the St. Charbel statue towers above the landscape. Below, Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai, patriarch of Maronite ...
St. Charbel Makhlouf is depicted in a mosaic at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. Credit: CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz Forty miles north of Beirut, nestled in the Lebanese mountains, is Annaya ...