The monastery at Annaya keeps a register of healings attributed to Saint Charbel's intercession - tens of thousands of entries and still growing. This living page tracks the newest recorded cases, what registration means, and where each stands with the Church. Last updated September 2026.
At a Glance
What: The Monastery of Saint Maron's running register of healings reported to it - entries are recorded accounts, not Vatican rulings
Latest: Two healings recorded on January 17, 2026, on two continents; a Crohn's disease case and a herniated-disk case recorded in October 2025
Under study: The Naples oil vessel report (July 2025) - under study, not registered
Since the years after Saint Charbel's death, the monastery has recorded the testimonies of people who believe they were healed through his intercession - names, dates, accounts, and where available medical reports. Catholic press commonly puts the total above 30,000. Registration is the monastery's own record: it preserves a testimony with its documentation, but it is not a Church verdict. Only a formal tribunal can declare a miracle, and almost none of the register's entries ever enter that process - a distinction this site draws everywhere, and the canonization page explains fully.
On January 17, 2026, the monastery registered two healings, each with medical documentation, as reported by Catholic News Agency. Georgianne Walker, an attorney from South Bend, Indiana, suffered a surgical wound that stayed open and bleeding for ten months; after anointing it with Saint Charbel's oil brought by a friend, she reported it healed completely and her second surgery was cancelled. Racha Charbel, from Jezzine in south Lebanon, had a 2.3-centimeter spinal tumor - a meningioma her neurosurgeon said only surgery could treat; on the morning of her pre-operative MRI, after a night of prayer before the saint's image, the scan showed the tumor gone. Both cases are told in full on the 2025-2026 miracles page.
The Tablet's coverage of the two healings recorded in January 2026.
Prefer to read? The Tablet's report covers the two January 2026 healings this page documents (Watch on YouTube: the report (2:20).)
More video reports on our videos page.Two further entries were recorded at Annaya in October 2025. Antonio Ishaac, 28, had stopped all treatment for Crohn's disease in December 2024; after a May 2025 visit to the monastery and a night of intense pain, he says the pain vanished - and medical tests months later showed the disease had disappeared. Nancy Nehme, a university English instructor, suffered debilitating back and leg pain from a herniated disk; after a night of prayer before an image of Saint Charbel in 2017 she reports the pain left her, and an MRI in 2024 showed the disk back to normal.
Some reports follow a different path. During a feast-day Mass in Naples on July 24, 2025, Monsignor Pasquale Silvestri anointed more than five hundred faithful with oil blessed for the occasion - and reported that the emptied jar was full again when he put it away. Following canon law, he reported the event to the postulator of Saint Charbel's cause and stored the vessel for Church authorities to study. It remains a reported event under study - not a register entry, not a recognized miracle.
The register's lesson is quieter than its numbers: people keep praying, and some keep coming back to say thank you. If you carry an intention, the healing prayer, the novena, and the 22nd of the month are the devotion's living paths - and the news page and the yearly report track what is recorded next. Whatever you pray for, see your doctor too; every story on this page did.
As of September 2026, the newest register entries are the two healings recorded at Annaya on January 17, 2026: an American woman's ten-month surgical wound and a Lebanese woman's spinal tumor, both with medical documentation filed at the monastery.
Catholic press commonly cites more than 30,000 recorded testimonies of healings attributed to his intercession, gathered at the monastery since the years after his death in 1898.
No. Registration is the monastery's record of a testimony with its documentation. Formal recognition requires a Church tribunal - a process only three cases in Saint Charbel's history have completed.
People typically visit the Monastery of Saint Maron at Annaya in person, give their testimony, and submit medical reports - as the January 2026 registrants did on a thanksgiving visit. The monastery's website is the channel for those who cannot visit in person.
Yes. The register continues to grow: two entries in October 2025 and two more in January 2026, with the Naples oil vessel report under Church study since July 2025.