Miracles of Saint Charbel

Nohad El Shami · Beirut, Lebanon

A partially paralysed Lebanese woman experienced a vision of Saint Charbel and Saint Maron during the night. She awoke to find her neck bearing two surgical incisions and her body completely healed.

The Maronite Brothers · Annaya Monastery

Months after his burial, a luminous light was seen around his tomb for forty-five nights. When the monks opened the grave, his body was found intact and exuding a reddish liquid.

Brother Charbel · Hermitage of Saints Peter and Paul

A servant, wishing to mock the hermit, filled his oil lamp with water instead of oil. Saint Charbel lit the lamp without comment, and it burned through the night.

Pilgrims of every faith · Annaya & the world

Muslims, Druze, Christians, and unbelievers have all reported healings, conversions, and consolations after visiting his tomb — a witness that grace knows no boundary.

Villagers of Annaya · Annaya

On the nights following his burial, villagers from the surrounding hills reported a brilliant column of light rising from the grave.

Raymond Nader · Hermitage of Annaya

A Lebanese man praying alone at the hermitage one night reports an overwhelming light and presence, after which he found a hand-shaped mark on his upper left arm.

Pilgrims at the tomb · Annaya Monastery

Pilgrims of every background have reported a sweet, unaccountable fragrance rising from the tomb and from relics, especially in moments of intense prayer.

Sister Mary Abel Kamari · Bikfaya & Annaya

A religious sister, ill for about fourteen years and bedridden, was healed the morning after praying at his tomb in 1950 — one of the miracles accepted for his beatification.

Racha Charbel · Jezzine, Lebanon

A woman from south Lebanon with a tumor on her spine says that after praying to Saint Charbel one night, a scan the next day showed it was gone.

Georgianne Walker · South Bend, Indiana, USA

An Indiana attorney whose surgical wound would not heal prayed to Saint Charbel and applied his oil; the wound closed and a second operation was no longer needed.