Bekaa Kafra overlooks the valley of Qadeesha, where Sharbel had two uncles living as monks in the monastery of Saint Anthony of Kozhayah. They were a source of inspiration and models for him.
He was baptized on August 16, 1828 with the name of Youssef Antoun Makhlouf. He was the fifth child in a poor, yet respectable and devout family, having two older brothers and two older sisters.
His father died on August 8, 1831 as he was returning home after compulsory enlistment in the Turkish Army under the Ottoman rule in Lebanon.
Along with other children, Youssef learned Arabic and Syriac from the priest of the village.
Youssef was very pious, so much so that his fellow villagers used to call him “the Saint.” Daily he used to take his small herd to the fields where he would let them graze while he went to a nearby grotto to fall into deep prayer in front of an icon of the Virgin Mary. This grotto became his altar and his first hermitage.
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