Attack against Miguel Uribe: With Reliquia de San Charbel they ask for a miracle of their recovery

A Maronita priest narrated that he reached the senator and presidential candidate, Miguel Uribe Turbay, at the Santa Fe Foundation Clinic in Bogotá (Colombia) to give him the holy oils and touch his body with a first -degree relic – a bone fragment – of San Charbel, asking for the miracle of his recovery.

In it last medical part Shared by the Santa Fe Foundation, after the attack suffered by Miguel Uribe on June 7, it is indicated that the 39 -year -old senator shows a “slight decrease in intracranial pressure” although “it still” remains in critical clinical condition with reserved neurological prognosis. “

Fr. Betrand Akl explained on June 13 to Caracol news that “the senator has a maronite ancestry and the Turbay family too. As the son of the Maronite Church, our duty is to go and visit it with the Holy Relic.”

The Maronite Church is one of the 23 Catholic churches of Eastern Rite that are in full communion with the Catholic Church of Latin Rite (Western), and that developed in Lebanon.

The relic of San Charbel and Miguel Uribe Turbay

The priest shared that with the relic of San Charbel he accompanies “the impossible cases and accompanied me to the clinic to give him the anointing of the sick and touched the body of the senator with the first degree relic of San Charbel, with the permission of the aunt of the senator and his sister”.

While giving him the holy oils, the Maronita presbyter, Miguel Uribe Tubay’s sister “was on his knees with the relic praying.” “We are Maronitas, we trust our saints, and it will get ahead,” said the relatives present at that time, according to the priest’s story.

After the visit of P. AKL, a San Charbel picture was placed in Miguel Uribe’s room and a change in the attitude of the family.

“This confidence they had after the coming of the saint transformed everything. There was a more or less pessimistic atmosphere before and after I saw a change in attitude. That made me remember the reaction of the disciples after the resurrection of Jesus,” the priest told Caracol news.

Father Akl stressed that Saint Charbel, Santo Maronita, is “the friend of God and the friend of men” who “is present in every house and family. It is rare not to find someone who does not have a charbel in Lebanon among his children.”

His devotion “did not stay in Lebanon. For the persecutions many Lebanese came out and carried that devotion, and is now in Australia, the United States, France, and Colombia, among other countries.”

San Charbel is one of the most beloved saints in the Spanish -speaking world, especially in Mexico. His original name was Youssef Antun (José Antonio) Makhlouf (Majluf).

He was born in Beqakafra, Lebanon, on May 8, 1828. He was a father orphan at age three, so he was under the care of his mother, who married in the second nuptials with a Maronite priest, something that is allowed in the Catholic Maronite rite, which influenced him to decide to be monk and take the name of a famous Syrian martyr.

He made his solemn votes in 1853 and was ordered priest in 1859. He lived 15 years in the monastery of San Marón, being an exemplary monk, dedicated to prayer, the apostolate and the studies of spirituality.

Then he felt the call to live in solitude, something he did from 1875 until his death in 1898, dedicated to asceticism, penance, manual labor and intense prayer.

San Charbel had gained fame for the miraculous cures that occurred among those who approached him.

He died on December 24, 1898. Pope St. Paul VI beatified him on December 5, 1965 and canonized him on October 9, 1977. His party is celebrated on July 24.