Baggǝʿu
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: በግዑ፡↗ normalized: Baggǝʿu↗ ʾabbā role: title ↗
Period of Activity
He was a saintly monk who lived in the half of the 13th century. He was a robber who became later on a disciple of ʾabbā role: title ʾIyasus Moʾa↗ . He is said to have been one of those who bestowed his blessing upon the monastery of Dabra Ḥayq ʾƎsṭifānos↗
Death
He died before the death of his master ʾabbā role: title ʾIyasus Moʾa↗ in 1292 and was buried in Dabra Ḥayq ʾƎsṭifānos↗
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Names
- birth: በግዑ፡ gez
- ʾabbā role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1200–1250
Death: Before 1292
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Subject of
Editions Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Editions Bibliography
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Kur, S., ed., 1965. Actes de Iyasus Moʿa, abbé du Convent de St-Etienne de Ḥayq, tr. S. Kur, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 259, 260, Scriptores Aethiopici, 49, 50 (Louvain: Secrétariat Du CorpusSCO, 1965).
Secondary Bibliography
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Kaplan, S. 2003. ‘Bäggǝʿu’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 441a.
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Kaplan, S. 1984. The monastic holy man and the christianization of early Solomonic Ethiopia, Studien zur Kulturkunde, 73 (Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1984). page 136
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