Monastery of St. Maron, Annaya
The hermit whose body exuded light and moisture, whose intercession is asked from Mexico to Australia, on a mountain above the sea. You go because the Maronite Church is not a footnote, and because Charbel still has the smell of a man who prayed in secret.
AnnayaFeast the 3rd Sunday of July; 24 December (his death)
The pilgrimage
To ask St. Charbel for the sick, as half the Catholic world already does.
To stand in a living Eastern Catholic Church, in a land of cedars and of wounds.
The apparition, the Gospel sign, the body, the image — whatever this place is known for, told as a file of its own.
