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Monday 27 January2020

San Charbel Makhlouf l'eremita del Libano

Libreria Fiordilibro

Libreria Fiordilibro organizes the fourth appointment of the review - Meetings at the College -, dedicated to the extraordinary figure of the monk Charbel Makhlouf of the Lebanese Maronite order. Colleggio Church, Galatina. 19:00

Around his figure there is an increasing interest, lived in the nineteenth century, died in 1898 and his body remained intact and with a living temperature until the beatification occurred in 1965 during the closure of Vatican II. Many other prodigies in life and thousands of miracles in death are attributed to him enough to be considered the Saint Pio of the East. Charbel Makhlouf was proclaimed saint by Paul VI in 1977. The land of Lebanon is a holy land, according to the words of Sacred Scripture, the cedars of Lebanon were planted by God himself and Saint John Paul II of the same said - part of the Places saints whom God loves, because he came to take you to his home.
We will get to know San Charbel Makhlouf and the Maronite community prof. Vincenzo Fasano professor of Canon Law at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Introduced by Don Antonio Santoro Rector of the Church of Santa Maria della Grazia.

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