AGAIMĪ, ANNA. - Maronite visionary of Aleppo (1720–98), better known by the name Hindiyyah or also Endie. Faced with the alternative of becoming a Visitandine or 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 so drawn, the sisters and Archbishop Germano 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 favourable report. But on 28 Dec. 1754 the Congregation of Propaganda Fide judged Hindiyyah deluded; nevertheless, the Congregation of the Sacred Heart founded by her flourished; on 17 Aug. 1759 and 17 Aug. 1768 Clement XIII granted it many indulgences, and Msgr Estefan, elected patriarch in 1766, incorporated two convents into II. Before long, however, an irreparable schism manifested itself in the community of A.: her books proved to be plagiarisms, and very serious accusations spread throughout the country, deepening the dissensions, 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 forty years had troubled the Maronite nation, spent the remainder of her life in penitence and obscurity among the sisters of Madonna del Campo (Kisrawān), where she died piously.