Charbel Makhlouf
saidundated
I have come to operate on you.
— St Charbel to the rescue; Miracles are on the rise in Lebanon, The Economist, (15 Dec 2018)
Charbel Makhlouf
Lebanese Maronite monk and saint (1828–1898)
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Lived 1828–1898, aged 70
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Updated 2026-06-09
A Lebanese monk who spent decades in near-total silence in a mountain monastery, then after death became the center of reported healings so persistent that the Church exhumed his body three times — and found it, witnesses said, still supple.
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Born Youssef Antoun Makhlouf on May 8, 1828, he joined the Baladites, a Maronite monastic order, and took the name Charbel. He lived most of his life in the Monastery of Saint Maron in Annaya, Lebanon, earning a reputation during his lifetime for holiness and for bridging Lebanon's fractured religious communities — Christians, Muslims, and Druze alike sought him out. He died on December 24, 1898. What followed turned a quiet hermit into "the Miracle Monk of Lebanon": pilgrims began reporting cures and favours at his tomb, and the claims multiplied for decades. Pope Paul VI beatified him in 196…
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Charbel Makhlouf
saidundated
No, you're not dreaming... Now you are conscious. You have never been so conscious as you are now.
— Lebanese man finds hand of Providence in mystical experience, Catholic News Agency, (28 Jan 2019)
Charbel Makhlouf
saidundated
Guard your families and keep them from the schemes of the evil one through the presence of God in them.
— Quoted in How to protect your family from the devil, according to St. Charbel Makhlouf, by Philip Kosloski, Aletia | (24 Jul 2019)
Charbel Makhlouf
saidundated
A man who prays lives out the mystery of existence, and a man who does not pray scarcely exists.
— Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel (2019)
Charbel Makhlouf
saidundated
Success in life consists of standing without shame before God.
— Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel (2019)
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