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Rafqa continued in her account to her superior, the next night after the prayer "At the moment of sleeping I felt a most violent pain spreading above my eyes to the point that I reached the state you see me in, blind and paralyzed, and as I myself had asked for sickness I could not allow myself to
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were given the option to join the new congregation, or a different one, or to resume lay status. Rafqa decided to become a cloistered nun rather than a teaching Sister, and, after praying in the Church of St. George, made the decision to join the
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65:29 June 1832
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1830:1914 deaths
1825:1832 births
1797:Catholicism
1440:Cathedrals:
1187:Saints.SQPN
695:Mariamettes
656:Boutrossieh
608:Saint Rafka
272:Communities
1819:Categories
1693:Traditions
1644:John Maron
950:References
883:Last Rites
397:John Maron
364:Portuguese
343:Vernacular
61:1832-06-29
1785:Biography
1516:Churches:
1287:Eparchies
1245:Patriarch
925:Pentecost
858:St. Elias
814:silkworms
626:canonized
402:Mardaites
316:Languages
214:Patriarch
193:sui iuris
125:Canonized
112:Beatified
88:, Lebanon
67:Himlaya,
1709:See also
1542:Shrines:
1434:Churches
1078:Archived
885:and the
790:new name
664:Damascus
653:baptised
624:who was
619:Maronite
616:Lebanese
614:, was a
158:a series
156:Part of
147:March 23
50:Monastic
1809:Lebanon
1759:Portals
944:Vatican
936:Blessed
870:Batroun
843:Passion
839:Tripoli
820:Illness
802:Abraham
798:Rebecca
757:Qozhaia
691:Pierine
680:Bikfaya
444:Lebanon
378:History
369:Spanish
354:English
330:Aramaic
292:Lebanon
181:of the
1773:Saints
1659:Chayna
1632:Saints
1263:Dimane
1258:Bkerké
730:Byblos
723:Ghazir
604:Arabic
449:Bkerké
359:Arabic
349:French
335:Syriac
282:Cyprus
160:on the
86:Jrebta
34:O.L.M.
1639:Maron
921:vigil
903:relic
806:Isaac
794:Rafqa
707:Druze
660:Peter
387:Maron
302:Egypt
297:Syria
143:Feast
25:Saint
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75:Died
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