Category: Lebanon

Popular Colombia media site El Tiempo presents a tribute to Colombian-born hermit and Lebanon resident Father Darío Escobar. The article is based on an 18-minute video. Fr. Escobar indicates that in Lebanon, where he has lived for thirty-five years, he is the last hermit. From the interiew: “This 90-year-old hermit prays for 14 hours straight, dedicates 3 hours to his daily chores, studies for 2 hours, and sleeps from 7 pm to 12 am. After this, he begins his day praying.” Original text and video in Spanish.

URL (article): https://www.eltiempo.com/cultura/gente/el-ermitano-mas-viejo-del-mundo-es-colombiano-este-es-el-mensaje-de-amor-que-envia-3464149; video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP-PDeFE13Q

Colombian media sources (El Tiempo, Noticias Caracol TV, El Colobiano) feature Darío Escobar, Colombian-born priest, who has been living a hermit life in Lebanon’s Qadicha Valley for twenty-three years. Fr. Darío grew up in a wealthy family, surrounded by luxuries — as he himself states — but he renounced all this for the priesthood, and went further — becoming a hermit in a place where he was unknown. The first years of isolation were difficult, but having survived and eked out a routine of prayer and work, he tells journalists that he could never do anything else.

URL: https://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/medio-oriente/la-vida-del-sacerdote-colombiano-ermitano-que-lleva-23-anos-aislado-del-mundo-789886 — El Tiempo; https://noticias.caracoltv.com/mundo/colombiano-ermitano-lleva-23-anos-aislado-del-mundo-aqui-no-hay-telefono-ni-radio-ni-television-rg10 — Noticias Caracol TV; https://www.elcolombiano.com/cultura/la-historia-del-colombiano-que-lleva-23-anos-como-ermitano-completamente-aislado-del-mundo-exterior-PA22004865 — El Colombiano.