Baṣalota Mikāʾel
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: በጸሎተ፡ ሚካኤል፡↗ normalized: Baṣalota Mikāʾel↗ ʾabbā role: title ↗
Birth
He was born in Saglā↗
Period of Activity
He was one of the most venerated saints of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and a moral reformer of the 14th century. He joined the monastery of Dabra Gʷal↗ and became a monk. He made reform efforts to monasticism, the church hierarchy and the monarchy. He tried to break the existing custom according to which monks and nuns were allowed to live together. He made an effort to moral reform of the royal court. In this regard, he reproved King ʿAmda Ṣǝyon I↗ for his marriage to his father's widow and for keeping numerous concubines.
Author of
- Maṣḥafa mǝśṭira samāy wa-mǝdr attributed.The book was revealed to Yǝsḥaq by his spiritual father, Baṣalota Mikāʾel or Bäḫaylä Mikaʾel , who probably are the same person.
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Names
- birth: በጸሎተ፡ ሚካኤል፡ gez
- ʾabbā role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1300–1399
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Subject of
Editions Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Editions Bibliography
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Conti Rossini, C., ed., 1905. Vitae Sanctorum Indigenarum, I: Gadla Baṣalota Mikāʾēl seu Acta S. Baṣalota Mikāʾēl; II: Gadla S. Anorēwos seu Acta Sancti Honorii, tr. C. Conti Rossini, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Scriptores Aethiopici, II, 20 (Romae: K. de Luigi, 1905).
Secondary Bibliography
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Samuel Wolde Yohannes and D. Nosnitsin 2003. ‘Bäṣälotä Mikaʾel’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 493b–494b.
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Taddesse Tamrat 1972. Church and State in Ethiopia 1270–1527, Oxford Studies in African Affairs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972). page 112, 114-17, 177-8, 187, 188, 223
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, Daria Elagina, ʻBaṣalota Mikāʾelʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 12.3.2020) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS2528Basalota [Accessed: 2024-05-01+02:00]
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- Daria Elagina Daria Elagina: Corrected transliteration. on 12.3.2020
- 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
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 9.9.2016
- 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
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor
Daria Elagina, contributor