Libānos
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
ሊባኖስ፡ Libānos መጣዕ፡ Maṭāʿ Maṭṭāʿ ይስሪን፡ Yǝsrin ʾabbā role: title
Period of Activity
He was one of the most important saints of the Aksumite period and renowned as one of the early founders of monasticism and asceticism in Ethiopia↗ . He came from Constantinople↗ during the reign of King ʾƎlla Gabaz . He was chiefly active in Sarāye↗ and ʾAkkala Guzāy↗ . He was said to be the founder of the monastery of Dabra Libānos↗ .
Death
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Names
- monastic: ሊባኖስ፡ gez
- birth: መጣዕ፡ gez
- birth: ይስሪን፡ gez
- ʾabbā role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 500–600
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Subject of
Secondary Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Bausi, A. 2003. La «Vita» e i «Miracoli» di Libānos, ed. A. Bausi, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 595, Scriptores Aethiopici, 105 (Lovanii: In aedibus Peeters, 2003).
Secondary Bibliography
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Bausi, A. 2007. ‘Libanos’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 558b–560b.
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Bausi, A. 2005. ‘Däbrä Libanos (in Šǝmäzana)’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 28a–29b.
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Cerulli, E. 1945. ‘Gli abbati di Dabra Libanos, capi del monachismo etiopico, secondo le liste recenti (sec. XVIII-XX)’, Orientalia, Nova series, 14 (1945), 143–171.
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Sergew Hable Selassie 1972. Ancient and Medieval Ethiopian History to 1270 (Addis Ababa: United Printers, 1972). page 115, 267, 278, 291
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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
- Solomon Gebreyes Correction on 12.9.2017
- Solomon Gebreyes Complete record on 11.10.2016
- 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