RCL Benziger Resource Center

Imagine how your life would change if you had to move to an unknown land more than 6,000 miles away! That’s what happened to Turibius of Mongrovejo. He was a respected judge and law professor Spain. One day, King Philip II, who was head of the Church in Spain, appointed him archbishop of Lima, Peru. [...]

Rafka was born in Lebanon in 1832. She was an only child. Her mother died when Rafka was seven years old. In time, her father remarried, but Rafka never got along with her stepmother. Rafka turned to Jesus when she was sad or upset. She trusted that our Savior would help her.

When she was fourteen, [...]