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Pope Leo XIV Visits The Tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf - Lebanon

Pope Leo prays at tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf at the Monastery of St. Maroun in Annaya, Lebanon on December 1, 2025, second day of his Apostolic visit to Lebanon. Canonized in 1977, this Lebanese Maronite monk and hermit lived from 1828 to 1898 and led a life of extreme asceticism. During his life, he obtained a wide reputation for holiness, and for his ability to unite Christians, Muslims and Druze. He is known among Lebanese Christians as the ‘Miracle Monk of Lebanon. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Visits The Tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf - Lebanon

Pope Leo prays at tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf at the Monastery of St. Maroun in Annaya, Lebanon on December 1, 2025, second day of his Apostolic visit to Lebanon. Canonized in 1977, this Lebanese Maronite monk and hermit lived from 1828 to 1898 and led a life of extreme asceticism. During his life, he obtained a wide reputation for holiness, and for his ability to unite Christians, Muslims and Druze. He is known among Lebanese Christians as the ‘Miracle Monk of Lebanon. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Visits The Tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf - Lebanon

Pope Leo greets pilgrims at the Monastery of St. Maroun in Annaya, Lebanon on December 1, 2025, after a prayer at the tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf , during the second day of his Apostolic visit to Lebanon. Canonized in 1977, this Lebanese Maronite monk and hermit lived from 1828 to 1898 and led a life of extreme asceticism. During his life, he obtained a wide reputation for holiness, and for his ability to unite Christians, Muslims and Druze. He is known among Lebanese Christians as the ‘Miracle Monk of Lebanon. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Visits The Tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf - Lebanon

Pope Leo prays at tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf at the Monastery of St. Maroun in Annaya, Lebanon on December 1, 2025, second day of his Apostolic visit to Lebanon. Canonized in 1977, this Lebanese Maronite monk and hermit lived from 1828 to 1898 and led a life of extreme asceticism. During his life, he obtained a wide reputation for holiness, and for his ability to unite Christians, Muslims and Druze. He is known among Lebanese Christians as the ‘Miracle Monk of Lebanon. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Visits The Tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf - Lebanon

Pope Leo poses with the monks at the Monastery of St. Maroun in Annaya, Lebanon on December 1, 2025, after a prayer at the tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf , during the second day of his Apostolic visit to Lebanon. Canonized in 1977, this Lebanese Maronite monk and hermit lived from 1828 to 1898 and led a life of extreme asceticism. During his life, he obtained a wide reputation for holiness, and for his ability to unite Christians, Muslims and Druze. He is known among Lebanese Christians as the ‘Miracle Monk of Lebanon. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Visits The Tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf - Lebanon

Pope Leo prays at tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf at the Monastery of St. Maroun in Annaya, Lebanon on December 1, 2025, second day of his Apostolic visit to Lebanon. Canonized in 1977, this Lebanese Maronite monk and hermit lived from 1828 to 1898 and led a life of extreme asceticism. During his life, he obtained a wide reputation for holiness, and for his ability to unite Christians, Muslims and Druze. He is known among Lebanese Christians as the ‘Miracle Monk of Lebanon. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Visits The Tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf - Lebanon

Pope Leo prays at tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf at the Monastery of St. Maroun in Annaya, Lebanon on December 1, 2025, second day of his Apostolic visit to Lebanon. Canonized in 1977, this Lebanese Maronite monk and hermit lived from 1828 to 1898 and led a life of extreme asceticism. During his life, he obtained a wide reputation for holiness, and for his ability to unite Christians, Muslims and Druze. He is known among Lebanese Christians as the ‘Miracle Monk of Lebanon. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CHINA-HAINAN-SANYA-MARINE RANCH-CREATURES (CN)

(230522) -- SANYA, May 22, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on May 24, 2021 shows a hermit crab at a marine ranch in the sea area of Wuzhizhou Island in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province. The butterfly-shaped Wuzhizhou Island is located in Sanya's Haitang Bay and is surrounded by clean waters and stunning scenery. The marine ranch in the sea area of Wuzhizhou Island is China's first tropical marine ranch. In recent years, the marine ranch has successively carried out artificial reef installation, marine environment restoration and coral transplantation, gradually promoting the protection and restoration of the marine ecosystem. Currently, hundreds of marine species thrive in the marine ranch near the island. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)

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China's nuclear negotiator likely to visit N. Korea

WASHINGTON, United States - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei (left) plans to visit North Korea as early as next week in a bid to prod the hermit nation into following through on its promise to reveal all details of its nuclear programs by the year's end, a source close to U.S.-North Korea relations said Friday. Wu, the chairman of the six-party North Korea nuclear talks, will make the pitch when he meets with his North Korean counterpart Kim Kye Gwan (R), the source said.

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Hermit crabs release offspring at Kagoshima beach

TOKUNOSHIMA, Japan - Coenobita cavipes, a type of hermit crab, release offspring at Kanamisaki Beach on Kagoshima Prefecture's Tokunoshima Island, the largest habitat for the protected marine creature in Japan, on July 28. The release is expected to continue until the end of August.

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BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN O.P. HEGGIE as the Hermit BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN Date: 1935

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THE CRUSADES

THE CRUSADES C AUBREY SMITH as the Hermit, KATHERINE DEMILLE as Alice Princess of France, HENRY WILCOXON as King Richard I Date: 1935

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Hermit crabs release offspring at Kagoshima beach

TOKUNOSHIMA, Japan - Coenobita cavipes, a type of hermit crab, release offspring at Kanamisaki Beach on Kagoshima Prefecture's Tokunoshima Island, the largest habitat for the protected marine creature in Japan, on July 28. The release is expected to continue until the end of August. (Kyodo)

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China's nuclear negotiator likely to visit N. Korea

WASHINGTON, United States - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei (left) plans to visit North Korea as early as next week in a bid to prod the hermit nation into following through on its promise to reveal all details of its nuclear programs by the year's end, a source close to U.S.-North Korea relations said Friday. Wu, the chairman of the six-party North Korea nuclear talks, will make the pitch when he meets with his North Korean counterpart Kim Kye Gwan (R), the source said. (Kyodo)