Rifqa Rayyis - [ Syriac Not Available ]
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In hagiography: Blessed Rifqa Rayyis was a
Maronite nun. She was a blind mystic.
Names
Sex
female1
Death
19441
Descriptions
In hagiography: Rafka was a Catholic nun in Lebanon who was a blind mystic.
Notes
In hagiography: Blessed Rifqa Rayyis was a
Maronite nun. She was a blind mystic.
Status: incomplete
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Works Cited
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- 1 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 365.
- 3 Francis M Zayek, Rafka, the blind mystic of Lebanon (Still River, Mass.: St. Bede's Publications, 1980)., : (Still River, Mass., 1980).
- 4 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: St Rafka.
- 5 Francis M Zayek, Rafka, the blind mystic of Lebanon (Still River, Mass.: St. Bede's Publications, 1980).
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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Rifqa Rayyis.”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, David A. Michelson and David A. Michelson. Vol. 1 of The Syriac Biographical Dictionary, edited by David A. Michelson. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1428.About this Entry
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