Saint rebecca story

19th-century Lebanese Maronite nun and saint (1832–1914)

Rafqa Pietra Chobok (Arabic: رفقا بطرسيّة شبق , June 29, 1832 – March 23, 1914), also known as Saint Rafka and Saint Rebecca, was a LebaneseMaronitenun who was canonized by Pope John Paul II on June 10, 2001.

She is a patron of lost parents and the sick.^[1][2]

Birth and youth

Rafka was born in Himlaya, in Matn District, on June 29, 1832, the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the only child of Saber Mourad El Rayess and Rafqa Gemayel, and was baptisedBoutrossieh (the Arabic feminine of Peter).

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Her mother died when she was seven years old. In 1843, her father experienced financial difficulties and sent her to work as a servant for four years in Damascus at the home of Assaad Al-Badawi. She returned home in 1847 to find that her father had remarried.^[3]

When Boutrossieh was 14 years old, her stepmother wanted her to marry her brother, while her matern