Maronite Saints
Saints in the Maronite Church are well known throughout the world for the miracles and monastic life they lived. Lebanon’s famous serenity mountains and valleys have given birth to Maronite Saints for hundreds of years.
Saint Maron—St. Maron (or Maroun) is the spiritual father of the Maronites, and the saint from whom the Maronite Church draws its name.
The Monastery of Saint Maron (Syriac: Deir Mar Maroun), also called the Cave of the monks
St. maron (Founder of the Maronite Church)
Maron, also called Maroun or Maro (Syriac: ܡܪܘܢ, Mārūn; Arabic: مارون; Latin: Maron; Greek: Μάρων), was a 4th-century Syrian Syriac Christian hermit monk in the Taurus Mountains whose followers, after his death, founded a religious Christian movement that became known as the Syriac Maronite Church, in full communion with the Holy See and the Catholic Church. The religious community which grew from this movement are the modern Maronites.
St. Charbel
Saint Sharbel Makhlouf was born in Bekaa Kafra on May 8, 1828. Bekaa Kafra is a small mountain village, the highest in Lebanon and the Middle East, 5118 feet (1560 meters) above sea level, in the region of Bsharri (North Lebanon). In its vicinity are the ancient Cedars of Lebanon, called by the Lebanese, “the Cedars of the Lord.”
st. rafqa
Saint Rafqa, also know as Saint Rebecca, was born in Hemlaya, Lebanon on June 29, 1832. She was the only child of her parents, Saber El-Choboq El-Rayess and Rafqa Gemayel. She was baptized on July 7, 1832 and named Boutroussieh.
Her parents were devout Christians and taught her daily prayers. By all ….
Nimatullah Kassab Al-Hardini
Youssef Kassab Al-Hardini was born in 1808 in Hardin, Lebanon. As a child, he was strongly influenced by the monastic tradition of the Maronite Church. Four of his brothers became priests or monks, and Youssef himself entered the Lebanese Maronite Order in 1828.
Venerated Estephan Nehme
On the holy ground of Lebanon, Brother Estephan Nehme saw the light, under the wings of the Maronite Church he grew up and in the care of the Lebanese Order he raised. He was inspired by the spirit of worship and the motivation of holiness transferring them in his turn to upcoming generations.
Blissful Abouna Yaacoub
The Venerable Khalil (Father Jacques) HADDAD was born on 1 Feb 1875 in Ghazir, Lebanon. He was ordained on 1 Nov 1901 in Beirut, Lebanon. He died on 26 Jun 1954 in Lebanon. Father Jacques attended school in Ghazir, and then at the “College de la Sageese” in Beirut, studying Arabic, French, and Syriac.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree and grow like a Cedar in Lebanon