AGAIMĪ, ANNA. - Maronite visionary of Aleppo (1720-98), better known under the name of Hindiyyah or also Endie. Placed before the alternative of becoming a Visitandine or of leaving the convent of the Order, where she was a guest, she moved to the monastery of Harās.
During her stay in Harās, Hindiyyah claimed that Jesus had appeared to her, commanding her to have blood drawn. In the blood drawn, the nuns and the archbishop Germanus Ṣaqr, Hindiyyah's new confessor, saw the instruments of the Passion, and therefore preserved it in reliquaries. Benedict XIV sent Fr. Desiderio da Casabasciana as visitor, and he drew up a favorable report. But the Congregation of Propaganda Fide on 28 Dec. 1754 judged Hindiyyah deluded; nevertheless, the Congregation of the Sacred Heart founded by her prospered; Clement XIII on 17 Aug. 1759 and on 17 Aug. 1768 granted her many indulgences, and Msgr. Estefan, elected patriarch in 1766, incorporated two convents into it. However, an incurable schism soon manifested itself in the community of A.: her books proved to be plagiarisms, and very grave accusations spread through the country, deepening the discord, until Pius VI on 17 July 1779 dissolved the Congregation of the Sacred Heart and suspended the protector patriarch from his functions. Hindiyyah, who for 40 years had disturbed the Maronite nation, spent the rest of her life in penance and oblivion among the sisters of the Madonna del Campo (Kisrawān), where she died piously.
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