Produced by Roland Eid	"...a hermit of the Lebanese mountain is inscribed in the number of the blessed, a new eminent member of monastic sanctity is enriching, by his example and his intercession, the entire Christian people. May he make us understand, in a world largely fascinated by wealth and comfort, the paramount value of poverty, penance and asceticism, to liberate the soul in its ascent to God..." Pope Paul VI, 1977

Biography Of Saint-Charbel:
Saint-Charbel Was born on May 8, 1828 in Biqa-Kafra, a mountain village of Lebanon. Sharbel was born in a poor Maronite Family. At age 23 he joined the monastery Our Lady of Lebanon where he became a novice. In 1853 He was sent to Saint Maron monastery and he took the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.

His teacher (Father Nimatullah Al-Hardini) provided him a good education and nurtured within him a deep love for monastic life. After spending 16 Years in the St Maron Monastery, Charbel was granted permission to live as a Hermit (in 1875) near St Peter and Paul hermitage. Father Charbel died the night before Christmas in 1898. After the confirmation of the miracles he had done Saint-Charbel was canonized in 1975 .