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Rifqa Rayyis - [ Syriac Not Available ]

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In hagiography: Blessed Rifqa Rayyis was a Maronite nun and a blind mystic.

Names

  • Rifqa Rayyis
  • Rafka4
  • RIFQA RAYYIS1

Birth

18325 or 18331

Death

1944

Sex

female1

Notes

In hagiography: Blessed Rifqa Rayyis was a Maronite nun and a blind mystic.
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    Works Cited

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    • 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 365. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 3 Francis M. Zayek, Rafka: The Blind Mystic of Lebanon (Still River, Mass.: St. Bede’s Publications, 1980). Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 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