Pope Leo entrusts Lebanon to St. Charbel’s intercession, prays at his tomb

December 2, 2025 | Vatican News

By Elias Turk | Vatican News

Pope Leo XIV began his second day in Lebanon on Monday with a deeply symbolic pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Charbel Makhlouf, entrusting the country and the wider Middle East to the intercession of the saint whom many Lebanese, Christians and Muslims alike, invoke as the “heavenly physician.”

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