Abune aregawi biography of william

          Abune Aregawi was an early Ethiopian Christian saint who founded the ancient monastery of Debra Damo.!

          Tradition claims the monastery was founded in the sixth century by Abuna Aregawi.

        1. Tradition claims the monastery was founded in the sixth century by Abuna Aregawi.
        2. A certain William Miller predicted the second coming of Christ Abuna Aregawi, to the top when he went there alone in his hermitage.
        3. Abune Aregawi was an early Ethiopian Christian saint who founded the ancient monastery of Debra Damo.
        4. Photo by William Haun in Abune Aregawi Church.
        5. Father, Shum-Ag=6 Aregawi Aregawi was one of the surviving sons of Sebagades and had been kept at Meqdela by T wodros.

          6. Abuna Aregawi

          Sixth-century Syrian monk and exiled missionary to Ethiopia

          Abuna Aregawi (also called Za-Mika'el Aragawi) was a sixth-century Syrian monk[2][3] and canonized by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, as well as by the Ethiopian Catholic Church, as well as the Eritrean Orthodox Church.

          He is one of the Nine Saints, who came from the Roman Empire to Ethiopia, and are credited for founding many monasteries and churches and was the main force behind installing monasticism in Ethiopia.[4]

          Tradition holds that Abuna Aregawi founded the monastery of Debre Damo in Tigray Region of Ethiopia, which is said to have been commissioned by Emperor Gebre Meskel of Axum.

          Biography

          He is one of the Nine Saints of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. These learned monks came from various parts of the Roman Empire to escape persecution after the Council of Chalcedon (451). Once in Ethiopia, they revitalized Christianity in Ethiopia, and to whom th