Marqorewos
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
መርቆሬዎስ፡ Marqorewos ʾabuna role: title
Birth
He was born in Wambartā↗
Period of Activity
He was a monk, active during the 14th and 15th century. He was the founder of the Eritrean monastery of Dabra Dǝmāḥ↗ in between 1340-1350. He played an important role for the expansion of Christianity mainly in the areas of Gize Mǝdǝr↗ .
Death
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Names
- monastic: መርቆሬዎስ፡ gez
- ʾabuna role: title
Residence
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Subject of
Secondary Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Conti Rossini, C., ed., 1904. Vitae Sanctorum Indigenarum. I. Gadla Marqorēwos seu Acta Sancti Mercurii, tr. C. Conti Rossini, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Scriptores Aethiopici, II, 22 (Parisiis: E typographeo reipublicae, 1904).
Secondary Bibliography
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Lusini, G. 1993. Studi sul monachesimo eustaziano (secoli XIV-XV), Studi Africanistici, Serie Etiopica, 3 (Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1993). 110-112
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Lusini, G. 2007. ‘Marqorewos’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 788a–789a.
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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).
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