ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 30th of August WELCOME! BLESSED STEPHEN NEHME, RELIGIOUS Blessed Stephen Nehme was born Yusuf Nehme in 1889 in the town of Lehfed, Lebanon. He was the youngest of seven children and was educated at Our Lady of Grace School, which was run by the Lebanese Maronite Order. (The Maronites are one of the Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See of Rome). It is said that one day Blessed Stephen was out in the fields watching over the animals on his father’s farm, when he saw a badger enter an underground cave. After noting the presence of traces of water, he began to dig and saw water spring from inside the cave until it became a fountain. HE ENTERED THE NOVITIATE In 1905, two years after his father’s death, Blessed Stephen entered the novitiate of the Order of Maronites in the Monastery of SS. Cyprian and Justine in Kfifan. In 1907 he made his monastic vows, taking the name of Stephen,...