St. Charbel Makluf, priest and monk.

Saint of the day St. Charbel, Priest and hermit.

Born in 1828 in a small mountain village SAINT SHARBEL MAKLŪF became a monk in the Maronite Rite and was ordained a priest in 1859. Devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, he spent the last twenty-three years of his life as a hermit. Despite temptations to wealth and comfort, he taught the value of poverty, self-sacrifice, and prayer by the manner of life he lived. He received the gift of performing miracles even during his lifetime. His tomb at the monastery of Saint Maron in Annaya, Lebanon, continues to be a place of pilgrimage. Canonized by Blessed Paul VI in 1977, he is known as the “Hermit of Lebanon.”