St. Maroun's Day

St. Maroun was known for his missionary work, healing and miracles, and teachings of a monastic devotion to God, which earned his beatification in 1965 by Pope Paul VI and canonized by the Catholic Church in the year 1977 by the Holy Father himself. He became the first Lebanese Saint to the Holy See. St. Maroun, born in the middle of the 4th century in Syria, was a priest who later became a hermit, retiring to a mountain of Taurus in the region of Cyrrhus, near Antioch.

Saint Maron was a mystic who started this new ascetic-spiritual method that attracted many people in Syria and Lebanon to become his disciples. Accompanying his deeply spiritual and ascetic life, he was a zealous missionary with a passion to spread the message of Christ by preaching it to all he met.