Saint Sharbel's Miraculous Healing of a Lebanese Sunni Muslim kid

Miracle number 29 from the Register of New Miracles happened with Yousef Bassam Mari, born in Qab Elias-Lebanon in 2004. His father is Sunni Muslim; his mother is Christian, and her name is Rola Mahrout. The child is in the custody of his mother due to the parents' divorce.

Yousef had a stomach infection, so his mother admitted him to Tal Shiha Hospital in Zahle-Lebanon. There the treating doctor injected him with a contrast dye to reveal the source of the infection in his stomach. Due to medical error, the doctor did not give him water after the injection, so his kidneys stopped functioning and became solidified, so that even dialysis did not help him. Yousef was brought into the care room, and in turn, the mother called the Minister of Health, informing him that there was a medical error, so that the doctor would assume responsibility.

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One of the mother’s relatives gave her a relic from Saint Sharbel and said to her, "Go into the care room and ask Saint Sharbel to intercede for your son with the Lord so that he could heal him from his illness and hang the relic in Yousef’s robes." So, the mother entered the boy's room, hung Saint Sharbel’s relic on her son’s robes, and stood near him praying. As she was standing near him, Yousef said to his mother, "Mom, I want to urinate." The nurses told his mother, "He feels that he needs to urinate, but he cannot do that because his kidneys are not working." The boy urged his mother, and she brought him the urinal, where he urinated blood and a little bit of urine, but it was only a few minutes until he urinated about five liters of urine. Yousef was cured. His mother Rola called the Minister of Health and dropped the case, saying to him, "Saint Sharbel has cured my son Yousef and spared the doctor at the same time". She took her son to a church and baptized him.

​She came to Annaya with her son and his medical records and recorded the miracle of his recovery, thanking Saint Sharbel for his intercession with her son, on September 22, 2015.