Oil Refills Miraculously After Anointing 500 Faithful
He used blessed oil from the Maronite Curia in Rome.
As the oil was nearly empty, Monsignor Silvestri grew concerned it wouldn’t be enough. “I didn’t imagine there would be so many people,” he wrote in a July 27 letter to Father Elias Hamhoury, former postulator for St. Charbel’s canonization, reports CatholicNewsAgency.com (August 6).
The priest managed to anoint each sick person present. Then came a surprise. “When I finished,” he recalled, “I closed the jar and put it back in its case. But when I returned it to the safe, I saw it was full again. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.”
The priest shared the event with the congregation, who applauded. The next day, Lebanese pilgrims noted the oil carried the scent of the cedars of Lebanon.
Monsignor Silvestri, who only recently developed a devotion to St Charbel, has stored the jar for possible investigation.
St. Charbel (1828–1898) was a Lebanese hermit from Beqaa-Kafra. He is known for many miracles.
Picture: Courtesy of Monsignor Pasquale Silvestri, #newsRqvltjnzrk