A photo from open sources The monk healed the sick in life and continues do it after death On the first morning of 1899 the hermit monks of the monastery of Saints Peter and Paul were sent along the mountains of Lebanon to the monastery, located in the town of Annaya on altitude 1300 meters above sea level. They carried there to bury the body the seventy-year-old monk Charbel who died after short illness on Christmas Eve. Last twenty For five years of his life he was a hermit.
Youssef Mahlouf, who later took the name Charbel, was born on May 8 1828 in a poor Christian family in Bekaa-Kafra, in the north Lebanon. He received his name at baptism in honor of St. Joseph. Young Yousef’s father was taken to war, serve the motherland when the boy it was only three years old. The boy did not see his father anymore. Since future saint charbel was brought up by his uncle and mother, very pious people. Uncle of the future hermit monk liked that his ward read with him with great love and interest religious books, and uncle spent a lot of his time.
When Yussef was twenty-six years old, he joined Monastery in Annaya, named after St. Maron. During training in seminary he was a student of Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini, the future saint canonized in 2004.
At thirty-one, Charbel was ordained to the priesthood, and with for forty-seven years led the life of a hermit. The monastic name “Charbel”, chosen by young Youssef, in ancient Arabic meant “King” (ball) and “God” (linen).
Even in the time of his monastic life, Charbel already had a reputation saint. He healed the seriously ill, learned about the death of a person on distance, could control poisonous snakes, averted adversity from peasants, called prayers with rain and was very calm, solitary and easy to communicate person. In addition, Charbel characterized by great devotion to the sacrament of the Eucharist and severity monastic austerities.
But the “main” miracles began after his death. So, on the second Annaya residents saw the New Year’s Day over the monastery of St. Maron, where Charbel’s body was buried, a glow similar to luminescence. it a phenomenon that lasted for many months attracted the attention of many people.
April 15, 1899 police searched the mountains killer criminal; seeing the glow near the monastery, they hurried there. They demanded to open the crypt, thinking what was hiding there criminal. It turned out that spring water filled the crypt, destroying all the corpses of monks buried at the same time as Charbel. Only the body of the monk Charbel was not touched by decay. His face and hands a cobweb from a fungus enveloped, like thin cotton wool. Clearing her present, and there were seven of them, did not see her face dead, and a sleeping person with perspiration on his face – pink, similar to a sacred tree. All members of the body were flexible and elastic, not there was a cadaverous smell.
Charbel’s body was clothed in dry clothes and laid in a small a little room. After examining it, several doctors noted that the monk is dead.
Charbel continued to “sweat” the nest, and he had to every day change his clothes. One monk, tired of this work, decided “dry” the body in the sun. Four months of “drying” did not result. Then the doctors suggested removing the internal organs from abdominal cavity. But nothing has changed: the body continued to “sweat”, it remained flexible and elastic and did not decompose.
Many experts who have studied this phenomenon have put forward a version about the monk’s special food, but Charbel always shared a meal with their hermit brothers.
In 1909, the body was placed in a coffin with a glass lid and left for public viewing until 1927. To the tomb of the saint Charbel (so christened his people) began a pilgrimage. Vatican not yet recognized a monk as a saint, as this required more evidence. Every day, miracles happened near the tomb: mentally ill people were healed, rose to their feet paralyzed, became blind sighted, hearing – deaf …
The pink perspiration on his body continued to perform, and for for seventeen years, there were no signs of decomposition: body odor remained normal, skin was fair, body was supple.
In 1927, Charbel’s body was placed in a zinc coffin, and he, in his turn placed in wooden. The crypt was made with double walls, so that there is no water.
In 1950, it was noticed that the walls of the crypt get wet and from them pink gelatinous liquid drains. The coffins were opened again – everything is as before: it does not decompose, “sweats”.
Mathematicians calculated: if the body of the monk Charbel loses a day at least three grams of liquid, then for 66 years its weight should have been decrease by 75 kilograms, i.e. it was supposed to turn into mummy. But this did not happen.
As a result, in 1977, Rome officially recognized the monk Charbel saints.
Of 95 countries, patients who cannot themselves write to the monastery come. They mailed their photos, locks of hair with request to put them on the coffin of St. Charbel and return them for healing. In the museum of St. Charbel at the monastery are shown thousands and thousands of letters from different countries from those whom the saint helped thousands of kilometers away; hundreds and hundreds of crutches are exhibited orthopedic shoes, tires, splints – all that the former left here sick, healed from seeing the relics of the saint.
One of the most famous cases of healing is the case with Nohad El Shami, a 55-year-old woman suffering from paralysis. At night on January 22, 1993, she saw in a dream two Maronite monks, standing by her bed. One of them laid hands on her neck and produced an operation on her, while the second laid a pillow under her neck. Waking up, Nohad found two wounds on her neck. She is completely recovered and could walk freely. She identified in the first healer Saint Charbel, but did not recognize the second monk. Next night she again saw Charbel in a dream. He said, “I did you an operation, so that people see and their faith returns. I ask you to visit the monastery 22 the dates of each month and regularly participate in masses all remaining life. ”
According to popular belief, the second monk was Saint Maroon.
Any miracle of healing today is carefully studied, not only top religious figures, but also doctors and scientists. So, For example, Irina Sakr, a doctor and wife of the President of Russian-Lebanese Society of the Holy Land of Dr. Simon Sacre, attended canonization of Charbel in 1977 as part of the Lebanese delegation Maronite Christians. She was very interested in all miracles, associated with the name of Charbel, and in 1991 Irina Sakr brought with themselves to the monastery to the holy elder a group of volunteers for statement of an experiment on the effect of its biofield on a biofield each of them. The control was carried out by apparatus “Bion-1”.
The whole group after contact with St. Charbel, as Irina writes Sacr, noted a good, joyful mood, “spilled” calmness. Some increased their weak energy, others who do not need, stayed at the same level, taking away from him a good mood, the third, as it were, gave up the extra supply of their energy that they had in burden.
After the experiment, the head abbot of the monastery, Father Tom invited all participants to share a modest monastic meal. The monks asked: how long will the energy of the saint last Charbel? And although they understood that this power was given to Saint Charbel God, they were interested in a scientific explanation of this phenomenon, especially that a lot of monks there have higher education, defended PhD and doctoral dissertations in philosophy, religion, literature, psychology, history.
Remembering the reception given to her and her volunteers, Irina Sakr writes: “We sat and reasoned, not trying to explain the phenomenon saint charbel scientifically. But I remembered the doctor Shafik Karagull, who works at the University of California, studying supersensory perception in people. She did an experiment asking a psychic woman to charge her energy every day for fifteen minutes for fifteen days a piece of meat. This piece meat, charged with passes of psychic, for thirty years lies on window and does not decompose. Hence, the concentration of energy creates the shell around the bioobject, which prevents it decomposition. ”
Curious is the fact that the healing effect on the most various photographs even had pictures of Saint Charbel! Here excerpt from one such letter: “Recently I was in the hospital and I took along a magazine with his photograph … I can say what was a witness. One woman who has farsightedness, without I couldn’t read glasses, put Saint Charbel to my eyes, and Then I was able to read the newspaper. The other formed after the injection bump (in the nerve, or something, hit). Attached a photo – in two day cone resolved. The third arm hurt above the elbow, could not lift it up. I put a photograph on my hand, and the next day I was surprised that the hand rises easily without any pain. ”
I must say that the images of St. Charbel were checked with using special hypersensitive devices that fix electromagnetic radiation. Conducted several measurements – the result was the same: the photograph of St. Charbel radiated the same frequencies that medical equipment generates!
By all the strictest standards, it was a real miracle; Photo they could indeed heal the deceased, as they distributed healthy electromagnetic radiation.
In Russia, not so long ago books were published “Saint Charbel – help with heaven “,” The phenomenon of St. Charbel – an introduction to the miracle “and” Phenomenon Saint Charbel. St. Charbel in Russia. “(I must say that Saint Charbel – perhaps the most popular saint in Russia, is not relating to classical Orthodoxy.) The author of the books is Anatoly Bayukansky, Honored Worker of Culture of Russia, academician. In these books over 400 pages, there are images of St. Charbel, prayers, amazing information about new healings and the unknown before miracles.
One of the copies of the book “The phenomenon of St. Charbel – introduction to a miracle “came to the island of Madagascar. Not so long ago came from there a letter of this content (style is preserved): “Madagascar Island, from damsel Marie Andrien Bois. Mr. writer Bayukansky! thanks To you for amazing books. In our hospital for dying children visited by Russian sailors who gave us your book “Introduction to the miracle.” And indeed, a miracle happened. One of ours patients boy Henri, doctors who were diagnosed “incurable”, began to put a holy image on his head and he got better. May God grant you long life and health. Our doctors and I, the girl Marie, the attending physician. ”
And on August 28, 2010, a letter came from the Lekar newspaper medical worker from Voronezh who did not believe in any miraculous photographs, and the profession obliged to respect only science. But when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she began to apply to sore spot image of saint charbel What not to do from hopelessness! After a month, the doctors shrugged their hands: an operation is not needed, the tumor has disappeared. “I didn’t explain anything,” the woman writes, “and coming home, I thanked Saint Charbel and the Lord God from the bottom of my heart! I know that not everyone will believe me, but it happened. Maybe acted psychotherapy, or maybe this was done by the holy monk Charbel, to whom I henceforth I have unlimited faith … ”
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