St. Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayes: 2014 Daily Lenten Reflections

St. Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayes was born on June 29, 1832, in a small town in Lebanon and died one hundred years ago today. This is her feast day.

She was seventeen or so when she entered a convent. Many years later, when she was fifty-three, Rafqa prayed to Jesus to be allowed to experience some of his Passion pain. She immediately had an excruciating headache, and had no real relief from pain until her death nearly thirty years later. She lost one eye, and lost sight in the other. She becam...