François de Galaup de Chasteuil - El Habis - Qadisha Valley - Mount Lebanon - Maronite Church - Maronite hermits
The French hermit who chose Mount Lebanon
The extraordinary journey of François de Galaup de Chasteuil, a seventeenth-century French scholar who abandoned European life to become a Maronite hermit in Mount Lebanon, where he was transformed from a foreign visitor into a revered spiritual figure of the Qadisha Valley.
