Need A Miracle? Ask St. Sharbel to speak of your Petition!
Born May 8, 1828 Died December 24th, 1898. Entered monastery in 1851 and ordained in 1858. 16 years were spent as a monk and 23 years as a hermit. Beatified in 1965, Canonized October 10, 1977 by Pope Paul VI. Early one morning, at the age of 23, Youssef Makhlouf walked to the monastery, telling no one of his plans. He never saw home again. He then took the martyr’s name Sharbel and made his only desire constant communication with God. They say his conversations with God were almost constant. Perhaps this explains the following miracles! He is so powerful with Our Lord, yet so unknown...the Holy Spirit has called our family to introduce as many folks as we can to this true miracle worker!!!
On Christmas Eve, 1898, St. Sharbel died. Had it been left to him, the world would have known nothing about him. But miracles began at once. The day he was buried, the Moslem prefect saw a strange light flickering around his grave and reported it to the officials. For forty-five days and nights the light was seen. Other miracles were reported. The patriarch ordered Sharbel’s body to be exhumed. By that time he had been buried three months. In the presence of the superior, the monks, and many lay people of the village, the grave was opened. The body, unembalmed and not in a coffin, was found floating in water which had saturated the ground where he was buried. The body, nevertheless, was as incorrupt as that of a sleeping man and the clothes were intact. The body was reburied, this time in a coffin, and put in an oratory in the monastery.
The miracles continued. Twenty-nine years after Sharbel’s death, his tomb
was opened. The body was soft as in life. A great number of the
sick who have visited his tomb or touched his relics have been cured.
Hundreds of miracles have been proved beyond a doubt, attested to
by hard-headed witnesses, skeptical scientists, and devout believers
as well. Bishop Francis M. Zayek has written: Sharbel is called
the Great Wonder of our century. From April 22 to July 14, 1950,
three hundred and fifty cases of cures, which were considered to
be miraculous have been recorded at Saint Maron’s Monastery of Annaya.
In detail, they consist of curing thirty-one blind, thirty-seven
deaf and dumb, one hundred and sixty-three paralytic and lame and
one hundred and nineteen incurable diseases. Twenty Moslem recipients
are included in the one hundred and nineteen last cases. However,
the most important miracles are those of the soul, such as conversions,
and returns to God. They have been and are still occurring through
the intercession of the holy hermit
ST.
SHARBEL PRAYER CLOTH Package!
The
"ST. SHARBEL" Prayer cloth package includes all of the
following:
Our
Exclusive Prayer Cloth (cloth is approx. 18" x 18" - images
vary in size) with this image on it!
Certificate of Authenticity
stating that this Prayer Cloth was touched to 15 first class relics
listed above. (This makes your Prayer Cloth a 3rd class relic!)
A prayer cloth history
card.A Special Holy
card. A
history sheet containing many of his miraculous intercessions. St.
Sharbel medal (very hard to find...it took us several years to find
a supplier!)
A "relic"
tealight candle to burn while praying.
ONLY $14.95 donation
Let
us seek his intercession in sickness and also during these turbulent
times in the Middle East! Dear
St. Sharbel, Great Saint of Lebanon, you know the situation and
the people of The Middle East. You know the complex nature of the
conflict happening at this very moment. We ask that you intercede
for peace and resolution to this situation. We pray for all the
people involved, especially the innocent children.
We pray that
all Nations will seek the way of peace together. May we ourselves
give witness to peace by the way we live our daily lives. We ask
that we be given UNDERSTANDING, that puts an end to strife. MERCY
that quenches hatred. FORGIVENESS that overcomes vengeance.
St. Sharbel,
Great Saint of Lebanon, intercede for all our intentions at theThrone
of Christ. AMEN
TESTIMONIAL:
"Hi
Cukierski Family! I just received a most wonderful package from you.
It was more than I had expected. The prayer cloths are sooooo awesome,
I'm so excited about this package and I can't wait to take these to
the people I bought them for. I know they will love them as much as
I do that I just had to order more. Thank you so much. God Bless You--Lucy
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