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The Story of Saint Charbel
A true story told in simple words: the boy from Lebanon's highest mountains who became a monk, a priest, and the hermit of Annaya, and who is now loved as a saint all over the world.
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Read-aloud narration by an openly licensed voice model. Illustrations are original composite scenes, not historical footage.
About this story
These scenes are imaginative illustrations, not historical footage. The shepherd boy's grotto and the lamp of water are traditions handed down with love, and the book says so on its own pages. His illness and death are told gently and without graphic detail. The final narrated page offers one question, one Bible verse, one small action, and a short prayer.
Sources: 1977 canonization homily, 1965 beatification address, the Monastery of Saint Maron archive, and a biography cross-check.