Sǝmʿon
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ስምዖን፡↗ normalized: Sǝmʿon↗ rās role: title ↗
Period of Activity
He was an important official in the reign of King Lǝbna Dǝngǝl↗ . He was the governor of Hagara Māryām↗ . He was also the founder of the church of Hagara Māryām↗ . Apart from his political leadership, he was also a capable writer and scholar of Gǝʿǝz literature.
Author of
- Mäṣḥafä mǝsganna.
- Dǝrsān baʾǝnta tazālǝfota ʾAyhud wa-margama Yǝhudā ʾAsqorotāwi.
- Miracle of Mary: The recovery of the icons stolen from Hagara Māryām.
- Miracle of Mary: St Mary reveals where the furnishings stolen from the church of Hagara Māryām are located.
- Miracle of Mary: A leopard carries off a goat that a poor man had bought in the market for the commemorative feast of St Mary.
- Miracle of Mary: The man who used to steal his food from the fields and would not admit it when questioned.
- Miracle of Mary: A huge tree needed for the construction of Hagara Māryām that they were unable to cut down falls down for them during the night.
- Miracle of Mary: Stone needed for the constructton of Hagara Māryām is found by the help of a vision.
- Miracle of Mary: A tree intended for a pillar for Hagara Māryām falls over a cliff, when they cut it down, but it ts recovered undamaged.
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Names
- birth: ስምዖን፡ gez
- rās role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1500–1599
Occupation
governor
writer
Faith
Orthodox
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Getatchew Haile 2010. ‘Sǝmʿon’, in S. Uhlig and A. Bausi, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 617a–618b.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, Dorothea Reule, ʻSǝmʿonʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 15.3.2019) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS8746Semon [Accessed: 2024-05-02+02:00]
Revisions of the data
- Dorothea Reule Added relations to miracles on 15.3.2019
- Solomon Gebreyes Complete record on 12.9.2016
- 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
Dorothea Reule, contributor