Nohad al-Shami, 55, had a sudden stroke. She and her family prayed to Lebanon’s most beloved saint, St. Charbel. One night, St. Charbel, St. Maron and Mary appeared to Ms. Shami in a dream, in which St. Charbel “performed surgery” on her. She was healed, and her recovery became one of nearly 30,000 miracles attributed to St. Charbel.
Now, on the 22nd of each month, Lebanese honor St. Charbel with a procession at the hermitage where he lived in Annaya, Lebanon.
Father Louis Matar, O.L.M., describes the 19th-century monk as “a man of silence … immersed in the Lord.”
“The most beautiful title given to Charbel is ‘Charbel, the man drunk with God,’ ” says Father Matar.
Videographer Raghida Skaff spoke to people about some of the saint’s miracles. Watch the video, then read more about St. Charbel in “Lebanon’s Beloved Saint,” in the March issue of ONE.