Facts: The world's first photograph was taken in 1826 by Nicephore Niepce (1765-1833), and by the end of 1860 practical cameras were found all around the world. According to some historians, the first camera that existed in the Ottman Empire (Middle East) was in 1854, that's 44 years before the death of St. Sharbel. St. Sharbel died on Christmas Eve 1898. He spent the last 23 years of his life in the hermitage, where he passed a life of constant prayer, rarely leaving the hermitage and in all things an exemplary model of self-denial and sanctity. And, he was very well known in his region as a "Holy Man".