Rebekka Ar Rayès

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Rafqa (Rebekka) Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (born June 29, 1832 in Himlaya, near Bikfaya , Lebanon , † March 23, 1914 in Al Dahr, Lebanon) was a Maronite nun . She is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church .

Life

Rebekka Ar Rayès entered a monastery of the Maronite Order of Anthony in 1871 . She had previously escaped the 1860 massacre that the Druze had inflicted on the Maronites. From 1897 she lived in the Joseph Monastery (Mar Yûsuf) in Jrabtâ near Batrun in northern Lebanon. During her monastic life, Rebekah Ar Rayès had to endure severe physical and mental suffering, whereby she was characterized by a deep piety and faithfulness.

Worship, beatification and canonization

Soon after her death on March 23, 1914, Rebekah's grave became a destination for many pilgrims .

On November 17, 1985, Pope John Paul II beatified Rebekah Ar Rayès . He canonized her on June 10, 2001 . “Rafqa”, as it is called in Arabic, belongs with the Saints. Scharbel Machluf and Nimatullah al-Hardini on the three canonized Lebanese.

literature

in order of appearance

  • Joseph Mahfouz: La servante de Dieu la soeur Rafqa, Rebecca, de Himalaya, 1832-1914 . Ordre Libanais Maronite, Ghazir 1980.
  • Salvatore Garofalo: Un messaggio dal Libano. La beata Rafqa (Rebecca) monaca maronita . Ordine lebanese maronita, Rome 1985.
  • Pierre Saadé: La sixième plaie. Vie, survie, spiritualité et prodiges de la bienheureuse Rafqa, la religieuse marounite libanaise . Lubnān, Beirut 1985.
  • Elias Hanna: Saint Rafqa, the Lebanese Maronite nun, 1832-1914. Teacher of the generations and patron saint of sufferers . Monastery of St. Joseph, Jrabta 2001.
  • Paul Sfeir: Saint Rafqa, the Lebanese now. Her life and spirituality . Holy Spirit University , Kaslik 2001.
  • Joseph Mahfouz, Leo Rothrauff: The lebanese Maronite Saints. Our Lady of Lebanon, Our Lady of Ilige, Saint Maroun, Saint Charbel Makhlouf, Saint Rafqa El-Rayes, Saint Nimatullah Kassab Al-Hardini . Beirut 2009.
  • Avril M. Makhlouf: Three Christian women of the Arab Orient: Rafqa, Mariam, Hindiyya . In: One in Christ , vol. 44 (2010), issue 2, pp. 3–28.
  • Patrizia Cattaneo: La terra che guarisce. Santa Rafqa monaca lebanese maronita . San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo 2012, ISBN 978-88-215-7450-4 .
  • Maroun Elkazzi: A spiritual botany. The Lily and the Little Flower. A comparative analysis of Rafqa El-Rayes and Thérèse of Lisieux . Sydney College of Divinity, Sydney 2014.
  • Chantal Verdeil: Le corps souffrant de Rifqâ, sainte maronite du xixe siècle . In: Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée , year 2006, issue 113–114, pp. 247–264.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Chantal Verdeil: Le corps souffrant de Rifqâ, sainte maronite du xixe siècle . In: Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée , year 2006, issue 113–114, pp. 247–264.
  2. ↑ Litterae Decretales quibus Beatae Rafqa Petrae Choboq Ar RAYES Sanctorum honores decernuntur . In: Acta Apostolicae Sedis , Vol. 94 (2002), pp. 593-595, here p. 594.
  3. ↑ Litterae Decretales quibus Beatae Rafqa Petrae Choboq Ar RAYES Sanctorum honores decernuntur . In: Acta Apostolicae Sedis , Vol. 94 (2002), pp. 593-595.
personal data
SURNAME Ar Rayès, Rebekah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ar-Rayès, Rafqa Pietra Choboq
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nun and saint of the Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Himlaya , Lebanon
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1914
Place of death Al Dahr in Lebanon