Feast day: July 24
St. Sharbel Makhlouf
A Lebanese Maronite monk who spent his last twenty-three years as a hermit in silence, prayer, and hard labor, and after whose death many cures were reported at his tomb.
A simple mountain hermit little known in life, he became after death one of the most beloved miracle-working saints of the Middle East.
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