Can someone tell me who this saint is?

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St. Charbal? He looks like him, but the Cross is throwing me off.
 
St. Benedict was also my best guess. Looks like an early monk. The statue isn’t marked and it’s odd to see a statue of him next to the usual Holy Family, St. Anne, St. Anthony, St. Francis Assisi, and St. Jude. The church isn’t named for him either.

I don’t think it’s St. Sharbel as this is a Latin rite cathedral. I typically see him as an icon and in the Maronite church.
 
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I thought it was Saint Jerome… (because of the Bible)…

The guess is a shot in the dark, though…
 
I wish it was St. Charalambos aka St Harry. Two of my deceased close relatives were named Harry. Alas, that saint seems pretty obscure.
 
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There is a statue that looks a lot like that one at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in DC… at least it resembles it due to the shape of the hat/habit, and, if I recall correctly, the bible…

I am going there tomorrow, so I’ll look to see if it is the same one…
 
Having looked at a bunch of Saint pictures now I’m home, St. Benedict seems most likely. The cross is a bit unusual since he usually has a crook, but in some cases has a cross at the top of his staff. Everything else fits.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
Having looked at a bunch of Saint pictures now I’m home, St. Benedict seems most likely. The cross is a bit unusual since he usually has a crook, but in some cases has a cross at the top of his staff. Everything else fits.
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Yeah, I think you’re right…

I’ve been doing lots of searches, too. I’ve found several of St Benedict with the same kind of hat/habit and cross for a crosier and also carrying a bible.

St Jerome also carries a bible, but the hat’s he wears are shaped much differently, and he is sometimes pictured with a lion.

Far more likenesses to St Benedict than Saint Jerome… The form of the habit is what seems to determine it for me…
 
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Wait… here’s one more for Benedict…

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Notice the shape of the Benedictine cross is the same as in the OP picture… The Benedictine cross has 4 equal axes… the bottom part of the cross isn’t longer than the other axes, as it usually is in most other crosses…

The Benedictine cross is also tapered at the base of each axis… again, it is the same as in the original picture…
 
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Benedict is shown carrying his Rule, not the Bible. Sometimes it’ll even say REGULA S. BENEDICTI. And I’ve seen him with both the cross staff and a regular crosier, as well as a more or less Benedictine-looking habit. My money would be on St. Benedict, but I would be interested to see what someone from that church says it is.

-Fr ACEGC
(Who was educated by Benedictines and so is thoroughly unbiased)
 
I got the impression of Saint Maron. The beard, monk robes, and Bible. Where did you find this statue?

The cross may be a Latinization.
 
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Hmm. The quest for the saint’s defintive identity continues 🤔.

The church Maron’s holding is a Maronite style church, with the Arabic inspired dome and everything, like those domes you see on mosques.
 
It’s in the Roman Catholic cathedral of a nearby city, placed next to the Holy Family.

Here in USA I have never seen a statue of St. Sharbel or St. Maron in a Latin church. They are of course in the Maronite churches, and are also in some shrines where there are dozens of statues of saints.

The Latin churches in USA tend to have a fairly standard set of saints who are portrayed in statuary. Almost every church has the exact same ones: Mary and Joseph of course, St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Patrick, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Jude, and whatever saint the church is named after. Some churches will have a recent sainted Pope or St. Anne with the young Mary as well. If there happens to be a US saint local to the area they may have him or her too (we have very few saints so this is also rare). That’s about it. It’s fairly rare to find a statue (not a painting, but a statue) of any saint outside these categories except for old Italian-American churches where they go a little nuts with the statues, but the saints there will all be European and often all Italian.

Edited to add: In addition to this statue, the cathedral had the following saint statues:
The Holy Family
St. Anne with young Mary
St. Francis of Assisi
St. Anthony of Padua
Our Lady of the Rosary
St. Jude
St. Peter (name saint of the cathedral) outside by the front steps
So it was a pretty standard subset.
 
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