St. Kidanemehert Church in Austria!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Annual Abune Aregawi Day, was celebrated, at the St. Kidanemehert Church in Austria on Sunday October 25, 2015.

Abune Aregawi was a sixth-century Syrian monk, whom tradition holds founded the monastery Debre Damon /Ethiopia, said to have been commissioned by Emperor Gebre Mesqel. He is one of the Nine Saints of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church who claims he came from various parts of the Roman Empire to escape persecution after the Council of Chalcedon (451). The Nine Saints, Abba ‚Afsé, Abba ‚Aléf, Abba Gärima, Abba Guba, Abba Liqanos, Abba Pantelewon, Abba Sähma, Abba Yäm’ata and Abba Zä-Mika’él ‚Arägawi were learned monks who revitalized Christianity in Ethiopia, and to whom the Ge’ez version of the New Testament is attributed.

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