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Born in 1832, Saint Rafqa was baptised as Boutrossieh (Pierina, Pierrette or Petronila in French). When Rafqa was 14 years old her stepmother wanted her to marry her brother, and her maternal aunt wanted her to marry her son. Rafqa did not want to marry either of the men and this caused a great deal of discord in her family. After overhearing her stepmother and aunt exchange insults, Rafqa asked God to help her deal with the problem. She then decided to become a nun and went straight to the convent of Our Lady of Liberation at Bikfaya.

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  • Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès
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  • Born in 1832, Saint Rafqa was baptised as Boutrossieh (Pierina, Pierrette or Petronila in French). When Rafqa was 14 years old her stepmother wanted her to marry her brother, and her maternal aunt wanted her to marry her son. Rafqa did not want to marry either of the men and this caused a great deal of discord in her family. After overhearing her stepmother and aunt exchange insults, Rafqa asked God to help her deal with the problem. She then decided to become a nun and went straight to the convent of Our Lady of Liberation at Bikfaya.
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  • 2001-06-10(xsd:date)
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  • 1832-06-29(xsd:date)
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  • Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, Italy
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  • convent of Our Lady of Liberation in Bikfaya, Lebanon
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  • Saint Rafqa
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  • --03-23
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  • 1914-03-23(xsd:date)
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  • 1985-11-16(xsd:date)
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  • Born in 1832, Saint Rafqa was baptised as Boutrossieh (Pierina, Pierrette or Petronila in French). When Rafqa was 14 years old her stepmother wanted her to marry her brother, and her maternal aunt wanted her to marry her son. Rafqa did not want to marry either of the men and this caused a great deal of discord in her family. After overhearing her stepmother and aunt exchange insults, Rafqa asked God to help her deal with the problem. She then decided to become a nun and went straight to the convent of Our Lady of Liberation at Bikfaya. This decision was not just to escape the problem of her marriage but a response to a true calling. As Rafqa recounts, “When I entered the Church I felt immense joy, inner relief and, looking at the image of the Blessed Virgin, I felt as if a voice had come from it and penetrated the most intimate part of my conscience. It said to me: You will be a nun.” Rafqa’s father and stepmother did try to take her back home but she did not want to go. “I asked the mistress of novices to excuse me from seeing them and she agreed. They returned home, saddened, and since then I never saw them again…” Father Joseph Gemayel and his family founded a new religious institute for women that provided them with full- time education as well as religious instruction. Rafqa’s name, Pierina, was listed last among the first four aspirants of “Daughters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception” (“Mariamettes”, in French) in Father Gemayel’s notebook dated January 1, 1853. She was 21.
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