Raphael
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| Saint Raphael the Archangel | |
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| Archangel | |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholicism Eastern Orthodoxy Oriental Orthodoxy Islam Judaism |
| Canonized | Pre-Congregation |
| Feast | October 24 |
| Attributes | holding a bottle or flask, Archangel walking with Tobit, young man carrying a fish, young man carrying a staff |
| Patronage | apothecaries, blind people, bodily ills, druggists, nightmares, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, shepherds, sick people, travelers, and young people |
Raphael (Hebrew: רפאל, Rāṗāʼēl; Greek: Ραφαήλ, Raphaēl; Arabic: رافائيل, Rāfāʼīl; "Name means::God has healed") is one of the seven archangels and one of the three archangels named in the Bible.[1]
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References
- ↑ Tobit 12:15 (Douay-Rheims)
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