Batra Māryām
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: በትረ፡ ማርያም፡↗ normalized: Batra Māryām↗ ʾabbā role: title ↗
Period of Activity
He was a 14th century saintly monk. He was born in Mugār↗ and he entered in the monastery belonging to the community of Takla Hāymānot↗ where he received monkhood. After he had been ordained deacon, then priest, he became the administrator of the monastery of Dabra Sablā↗ . After he was attacked by the Oromo↗ , Batra Māryām↗ was forced to flee through Dāmot↗ , Goǧǧām↗ and Dambǝyā↗ . Finally, he settled at the island of Zage↗ where he established a community that cultivated the soil and built a church dedicated to St George of Lydda↗ .
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Names
- birth: በትረ፡ ማርያም፡ gez
- ʾabbā role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1300–1399
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Cerulli, E. 1944–1945. ‘Gli Atti di Batra Māryām’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 4 (1944–1945), 133–144 (DOI: 10.2307/41462612).
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Cerulli, E. 1946. ‘Gli Atti di Batra Māryām’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 5 (1946), 42–66 (DOI: 10.2307/41465360).
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Derat, M.-L. 2003. ‘Bäträ Maryam’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 507a-b.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, Dorothea Reule, ʻBatra Māryāmʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2019-03-27) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS2540BatraMa [Accessed: 2024-05-17]
Revisions of the data
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: removed occupation containing St, Saint, bibl, biblical or prophet, added keyword. See https://github.com/BetaMasaheft/Documentation/issues/1104 on 27.3.2019
- Dorothea Reule Dorothea Reule: Added reference to St George on 1.5.2018
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 24.11.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
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Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor
Dorothea Reule, contributor