AGÁIMI, Anna. — A Maronite visionary from Aleppo (1720–98), better known by the name of Hindiyyah or also Endie. Faced with the choice of becoming a Visitandine or leaving the convent of the Order where she was staying, she moved to the monastery of Harās.
During her stay at Harās, Hindiyyah claimed that Jesus had appeared to her, commanding her to have blood drawn. In the blood drawn, the nuns and the archbishop Germano Šaqr, Hindiyyah’s new confessor, saw the instruments of the Passion, which they then preserved in reliquaries. Benedict XIV sent Fr. Desiderio da Casabasciana as a visitor, and he drew up a favorable report. However, the Congregation of Propaganda Fide on 28 Dec. 1754 judged Hindiyyah deluded; nonetheless, the Congregation of the Sacred Heart, which she had founded, prospered. Clement XIII on 17 Aug. 1759 and 17 Aug. 1768 granted it many indulgences, and Msgr. Estefan, elected patriarch in 1766, incorporated two convents into II. Soon, however, an irreparable schism manifested itself within the community of A.: her books were revealed to be plagiarized, and grave accusations spread through the land, deepening the discord, until Pius VI on 17 July 1779 dissolved the Congregation of the Sacred Heart and suspended from his functions the patriarchal protector. Hindiyyah, who for forty years had disturbed the Maronite nation, spent the rest of her life in penance and oblivion among the nuns of Our Lady of the Field (Kisrawān), where she died piously.