New healings are still being recorded at the Annaya monastery. This page lists the latest recorded and reported miracles, and keeps them clearly separate from the miracles formally recognized by the Catholic Church.
These are the miracles that passed Church investigation for official sainthood milestones. They are distinct from broader devotional claims.
The Annaya monastery keeps a running register of miracles attributed to Saint Charbel's intercession, maintained by the monk assigned to assess and record them. Recording at the monastery is not the same as formal Church recognition, which involves a separate Vatican process.
Three healings passed the Church's formal investigation and were accepted for the official milestones of Saint Charbel's cause. Each was examined by physicians and church tribunals before being declared inexplicable by natural means.
A religious of the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts, Sister Maria Abel Kamari had been bedridden for years with severe illness and paralysis. Taken to Saint Charbel's tomb in July 1950, she recovered - a recovery later confirmed by medical examination and accepted by the Church as one of the two miracles for his beatification.
A blacksmith from Baabdat, Iskandar Naim Obeid had been blind in one eye for more than a decade after a metal fragment struck it. On pilgrimage to Annaya in 1950 he reported a dream in which a monk touched his eye, and he woke with his sight restored. Physicians could find no natural explanation, and the Church accepted the healing as the second miracle for the beatification.
Mariam Assaf Awad underwent several operations for cancer between 1963 and 1965 as the disease spread. By 1967 her condition was considered grave. One night she prayed for a complete cure through Saint Charbel's intercession and woke the next morning with her symptoms gone. Detailed medical testing confirmed a recovery doctors could not account for, and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints accepted it as the miracle for his canonization.
Pope Paul VI both beatified Saint Charbel in 1965 and canonized him in 1977 - the same pope guiding both stages of the cause.
For decades after his burial, Saint Charbel's body did not decay in the ordinary way. This account stays with the documented facts - the truth is remarkable enough that it needs no exaggeration.
Saint Charbel died on Christmas Eve 1898 and was buried without a coffin in the monastery cemetery. In the weeks that followed, monks and villagers repeatedly reported an unusual light over his grave at night. When the grave was opened in the spring of 1899 - a grave waterlogged by winter rains - the body was found intact, the limbs still flexible, with a reddish, blood-like liquid seeping from it.
The fluid, described as blood serum combined with a light oil, kept flowing for roughly sixty-seven years, from the first exhumation until the mid-1960s. The monks collected it on cloths, and it became the origin of the blessed oil of Saint Charbel that pilgrims still use today - a sign that accompanies prayer, not a cure in itself.
The tomb was opened and examined several more times - notably in 1927, and in 1950, 1952 and 1955 as evidence was gathered for his cause. Across these examinations the body was repeatedly found preserved and flexible, and the liquid continued to seep. Father Joseph Mahfouz, postulator of the cause, testified that the body was still preserved and intact near the beatification in 1965.
Saint Charbel's body is not incorrupt today. When the tomb was opened in 1976, after the beatification, the body had undergone natural decomposition; only the skeleton remained, and the flow of liquid had ceased. Many devotees see meaning in that timing - the sign remaining until the Church's recognition came. That reading is a matter of devotion, not doctrine; what is certain is the sequence of the facts.
More than 29,680 miracles have been recorded at the Annaya monastery since his death in 1898, according to Father Louis Matar, the monk who assesses and records them, as reported by CNEWA in March 2026. Around 10 percent are reported by non-Christians. This register is a monastery record, distinct from the Church's formal miracle approvals.
"Recorded at Annaya" means the monastery's registrar entered the case in its archive after an initial assessment. Formal Church approval is a separate Vatican process with medical and theological investigation - only three miracles passed it for Saint Charbel's beatification and canonization. Most recorded cases are never submitted to that process.
Yes, new cases continue to be entered in the Annaya register. In January 2026 the monastery recorded two additional healings, one in the United States and one in Lebanon, according to CNEWA's March 2026 report. Recent recorded cases are listed below, newest first.
Yes. Father Louis Matar reports that around 10 percent of recorded miracles happened to non-Christians, and the monthly 22nd pilgrimage draws Christians, Druze, Hindus and Muslims - sometimes tens of thousands of pilgrims.
Newest first. "Recorded at Annaya" means the monastery's registrar entered the case in its archive; it is not equivalent to formal Vatican recognition.
In January 2026 the monastery recorded two additional healings attributed to Saint Charbel's intercession: one in the United States and one in Lebanon, according to CNEWA's ONE Magazine report published March 2026.
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. The monastery recorded his case in October 2025.
Nancy Nehme, a university English instructor, suffered debilitating back and leg pain from a herniated disk. After a 2017 night of prayer before an image of Saint Charbel she reports the pain left her; an MRI in 2024 showed the disk was back to normal. The monastery recorded her case in October 2025.
During a feast-day Mass at St. Ferdinand Church in Naples, Monsignor Pasquale Silvestri anointed more than 500 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. This remains a reported event, not a formally recognized miracle.
Pope Leo XIV prayed at Saint Charbel's tomb in Annaya during his apostolic journey to Lebanon - the first time a pope visited the tomb - and entrusted Lebanon, the Church, and the world to the saint's intercession, asking especially for peace in the Levant.
Since the 1993 healing of Nohad al-Shami, pilgrims gather at Annaya on the 22nd of every month. Many later healings, including recent ones recorded in the register, are connected by pilgrims to this devotion and to the monastery's blessed oil and soil.