{"id":6440,"date":"2024-07-23T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=6440"},"modified":"2024-05-29T20:47:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:47:08","slug":"st-sharbel-st-charbel-makhluf-priest-feast-day-july-24th-very-important-because-the-holy-father-is-going-to-lebanon-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=6440","title":{"rendered":"7\/24 St. Sharbel (St. Charbel) Makhluf, Priest; Feast Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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St. Sharbel (Charbel) Makhluf, Priest
\n1828 – 1898
\nFeast Day July 24th<\/h1>\n

Youssef Antoun Makhlouf<\/strong> was born in 1828, in Bekaa Kafra (North Lebanon)<\/strong>. He had a true\u00a0Christian\u00a0upbringing, which had given him a passion for prayer. Then he followed his two hermit uncles in the hermitage of the St Antonious Kozhaya monastery and was converted to monastic and hermetical life.<\/p>\n

In 1851, he left his\u00a0family\u00a0village and headed for the Our Lady of Maifouk monastery to spend his first monastic year, and then he went to the St Maron monastery in Annaya, where he entered the Maronite Order, carrying the name Charbel, a name of one of theAntioch\u00a0church martyrs of the second century. On November 1st. 1853, he exposed his\u00a0ceremonial\u00a0vows\u00a0in St Maron\u2019s monastery – Annaya. Then he completed his theological studies in the St Kobrianous and Justina monastery in Kfifan, Batroun.<\/p>\n

He was ordained a\u00a0priest\u00a0in Bkerky, the Maronite Patriarchate, on July 23rd, 1859. He lived 16 years in the St Maron’s monastery \u2013 Annaya. From there, he entered, on February 15th, 1875, the St Peter & Paul hermitage, which belongs to the monastery. He was a typical saint and hermit, who spent his\u00a0time\u00a0praying and worshipping. Rarely had he left the hermitage where he followed the way of the saintly\u00a0hermits\u00a0in prayers,\u00a0life\u00a0and practice.<\/p>\n

St Charbel lived in the hermitage for 23 years. On December 16th, 1898 he was struck with an illness while performing the holy mass. He died on Christmas’ eve, December 24th, 1898, and was buried in the St Maron monastery cemetery in Annaya.<\/p>\n

Few months later, dazzling\u00a0lights\u00a0were seen around the grave. From there, his corpse, which had been secreting sweat and blood, was transferred into a special coffin. Hordes of pilgrims started swarming the place to get his intercession. And through this intercession,\u00a0God\u00a0blessed many people with recovery and spiritual graces.<\/p>\n

In 1925, his\u00a0beatification and canonization\u00a0were proposed for declaration by Pope Pious XI. In 1950, the grave was opened in the presence of an official committee which included doctors who verified the soundness of the body. After the grave had been opened and inspected, the variety of healing incidents amazingly multiplied. A multitude of pilgrims from different religious facets started flocking to the Annaya monastery to get the saint’s intercession.<\/p>\n

Prodigies reached beyond the Lebanese borders. This unique phenomenon caused a moral revolution, the return to\u00a0faith\u00a0and the reviving of the virtues of the soul.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the\u00a0Catholic.org<\/a>\u00a0website<\/em>
\n Note: \u00a0Wikipedia identifies the Feast Day of\u00a0St. Sharbel (Charbel) Makhluf as July 17, so that is probably why Catholic.org also did.<\/em><\/p>\n

Another website for St. Sharbel (Charbel) Makhulf can be found \u00a0here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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