Walatta Ṗeṭros
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ወለተ፡ ጴጥሮስ፡↗ normalized: Walatta Ṗeṭros↗ ʾƎmmat role: title ↗
Birth
1594
Period of Activity
She was one of the most prominent female religious figures in the 17th century. She is largely known for her resistance to Catholicism and she is venerated as a saint by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
Death
She died in 1644 at the age of 50.
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Names
- birth: ወለተ፡ ጴጥሮስ፡ gez
- ʾƎmmat role: title
Dates
Birth: 1594
Period of activity: 1610–1644
Death: 1644
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Subject of
Text Bibliography Text Bibliography Text Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Text Bibliography
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Conti Rossini, C., ed., 1912. Vitae Sanctorum Indigenarum. I. Gadla Emna Walatta Pēṭros seu Acta S. Walatta Pēṭros; II. Ta’āmera Zar’a-Būrūk seu Miracula S. Zara-Buruk, tr. C. Conti Rossini, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Scriptores Aethiopici, II, 25 (Romae: K. de Luigi, 1912).
Text Bibliography
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Ricci, L. 1970. Vita di Walatta iēṭros, tr. L. Ricci, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 316, Scriptores Aethiopici, 61 (Louvain: Secrétariat du Corpus SCO, 1970).
Text Bibliography
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Belcher, W. L., ed., 2015. The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman, Written by Galawdewos, tr. M. Kleiner (Princeton, NJ–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015).
Secondary Bibliography
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Cohen, L. 2010. ‘Wälättä Ṗeṭros’, in S. Uhlig and A. Bausi, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 1086b–1088a.
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Papi, M. R. 1943. ‘Una santa abissina anticattolica: Walatta-Pēṭros’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 3/1 (1943), 87–93 (DOI: 10.2307/41460202).
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, Massimo Villa, ʻWalatta Ṗeṭrosʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 27.3.2019) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS9848Walatta [Accessed: 2024-05-03+02:00]
Revisions of the data
- 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
- Massimo Villa Additions on 7.11.2017
- Solomon Gebreyes correction on 23.2.2017
- Solomon Gebreyes Complete record on 14.9.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Alessandro Bausi, general editor
Solomon Gebreyes, editor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor
Massimo Villa, contributor