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Feasts of Abuna Tekle <\/strong>H<\/strong>aimanot<\/strong><\/p>\n

August 30, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abuna\u00a0 Haimanot was born in Zarare, in the country of Showa.\u00a0 His father\u2019s name was Saga Ze\u2019ab, and his mother\u2019s name was Egzi\u2019E Haraya.\u00a0 His father belonged to the family of priests who illumined Ethiopia with their Faith; his wife was barren, and they used to pray to God to give them a son. whilst they were living thus, Satan made Matalome governor of Damot, and he laid waste the whole of the districts of Showa, up to the border of \u2018Amhara.<\/p>\n

All the nobles, one after the other, gave him their women, and the beautiful women whom he found during his raid he made his concubines. \u00a0In those days he came to the city of Selalesh and killed all the Christians, and Saga Ze’ab fled in fear, and fell into a pool of water, which became like a tent. \u00a0Egzi\u2019E Haraya the soldiers seized and carried off, and they brought her to Matalome.\u00a0 When he saw her beauty he rejoiced exceedingly, and he adorned her with apparel of fine linen.\u00a0 Then he returned to his country, and his nobles gathered together in order to make ready for the feast of his marriage with her; and when Egzi\u2019E Haraya heard this she made prayer to God that He would deliver her from this unclean union.\u00a0 Straightway Michael the archangel came and he took her up upon his wings, and brought her into the church at the time of the third hour, and as Saga Ze’ab was going out of the church he saw her standing dressed in ornamental apparel.\u00a0 And he said, \u201cWho is this woman?\u201d when he asked her he knew that she was his wife; and she told him everything which had happened to her from the beginning to the end.<\/p>\n

One night Michael, the angel of God, appeared unto them, and told them that they should produce a son whose righteousness should be heard of in all the ends of the earth, and that the heavens and the earth would not be sufficient [to contain] one of his excellences. \u00a0After a few days this saint was conceived, on the twenty-fourth day of the month of Megabit, and he was born on the twenty-fourth day of the month of Tahsas; and there was joy in the house of his father and mother.\u00a0 On the day when they gave him Christian baptism they called him \u201cZara Yohannes.\u201d On the third day after he was born, he cried out, saying, \u201cOne is the Holy Father, One is the Holy Son, One is the Holy Spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

He grew in the Holy Spirit, and in wisdom, and he worked signs and wonders, thus: When anything which was used for food was wanting in his father\u2019s house, he would touch, with a smile, a little flour, and fill all the house therewith, and he did the same with olive oil, and honey, and fat, and wine; and he would fill the house so full that everyone who saw it, and heard of it, marveled. \u00a0When he was seven years old his father taught him the Psalms of David, and all the Books of the Church. \u00a0Then, he took him to the Bishop, Abba Cyril, who made him a deacon and prophesied concerning him, saying, \u201cThis boy shall become a chosen vessel of God,\u201d and having received the office of deacon [he departed] to his own country. \u00a0When he was a young man, he used to traverse the desert hunting wild beasts, and [one day] at noon, our Lord appeared unto him, sitting upon the wings of Michael, and said unto him, \u201cO My beloved, henceforward thou shalt not be a hunter of wild beasts, but thou shalt catch many souls in [thy] net.\u00a0 Thy name shall be \u2018Takla Haimanot,\u2019 for I have chosen thee from thy mother\u2019s womb, and I have sanctified thee like Jeremiah the prophet, and John the Baptist.\u00a0 behold, I have given thee power to heal the sick, and to drive out unclean spirits in all the world\u201d; and having said these words He disappeared, and the saint returned to his abode.<\/p>\n

After a few days his father and his mother died, and he gave all his goods to the poor and needy, and he left all the house open, and took his staff and went forth by night, saying, \u201cWhat shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and destroy his soul?\u201d \u00a0And then he took the rank of priest, and began to preach the Faith in all the country of Showa; and he baptized seventy thousand people in his own country. He destroyed all the shrines of idols, and cut down the trees thereof, so that the devils, who used to dwell in them, might take to flight. And after three years a voice cried unto him from heaven, saying, \u201cO Takla Haimanot, rise up and go to the land of Damot, that thou mayest receive for me much spoil.\u201d<\/p>\n

As he was journeying along the road of \u2018Enarte\u2019at, he met some men, who were magicians and diviners, and their king, and they were performing acts of divination.\u00a0 During the violent quarrel which he had with them, they beat him with a thick iron rod, until the bones showed through his skin, and he died; but God gave him strength to endure, and He raised him up sound and unharmed. \u00a0He remained thus for four mornings, and after he had prayed the earth swallowed up the magicians and their beasts. \u00a0Passing on from that place he arrived at the country of Damot, and he destroyed the diviners. When Motalame, the governor, heard of him, he commanded his soldiers to bring him to him, bound with strong fetters, and he said unto him, \u201cWhy dost thou destroy my country?\u201d \u00a0Having said this to him, he commanded the soldiers to kill him, and to cast him down a precipice several times. \u00a0God gave him strength to endure, and He raised him up unharmed. \u00a0Having performed signs and wonders before the governor and destroyed the soothsayers, he made the governor to believe on Christ, for he raised up before him many dead persons. \u00a0Now those who were baptized with him, on that day, were in number twelve thousand and ninety-nine souls.<\/p>\n

When the wherewithal for the administration of the Holy Mysteries was lacking Michael brought down to him [some oil of] Meron from heaven, and he said unto him, \u201cConsecrate the Tabernacle with this, and administer the Holy Mysteries to the people\u201d; and he did as Michael told him. \u00a0And our father continued to teach the king the Books of the Prophets and Apostles. \u00a0And when he had lived in Damot for twelve years, a voice cried to him from heaven on Easter Day, and our Lord gave him the promise that He would give the kingdom of heaven unto all those who called upon his name and celebrated his commemoration, and that he would deliver them from all tribulation and sorrow. \u00a0And the voice also said unto him, \u201cGo thou to the country of \u2018Anhare, to Abba Betselote Mikael,\u201d and when he had arrived there he lived with him for ten years; and he served by day with his disciples, and during the night he made innumerable bowings to the ground. \u00a0He worked the flour mill, and drew water, and cut wood for the fire ceaselessly. \u00a0Besides this, he wrought many miracles, raising the dead, and healing sick folk without number.\u00a0 Then, God said unto him, \u201cO My beloved Takla Haimanot, go thou to the place (or, shrine) of Stephen, the first to martyrs, which is called Hayk, and there thou shalt find a holy man whose name is Iyesus Moa, and he will give thee the order of monkhood.\u201d \u00a0He rose up and departed, and came to the sea- coast, and passed over the sea as if he were on dry land, without wetting his feet. \u00a0When he came to the holy man, he welcomed him, and gave him the apparel of the monk, [that is to say,] the tunic and the head cloth only; and he dwelt there for ten years working signs and wonders, and each [night] he made seven thousand bowings.\u00a0 Then God said unto him, \u201cO My beloved Takla Haimanot, go thou to the land of Tegre, and go up the mountain which is called Damo, and thou shalt find there a holy man whose name is \u2018Yohanni,\u2019 and take thou from him the cap and cloak, and dwell there until I tell thee.\u201d\u00a0 He dwelt there fighting the fight, having received the cap and the cloak, for twelve years.<\/p>\n

God appeared unto him and said unto him, \u201cGet thee out of this mountain, and travel about through the deserts of Tegre and visit the monasteries and houses of the monks.\u201d\u00a0 He went down from that high mountain, being exhausted by the toil thereof, and he traveled through\u00a0 the\u00a0 deserts\u00a0 of\u00a0 Tegre.\u00a0\u00a0 Having\u00a0 finished\u00a0 this\u00a0 he\u00a0 went\u00a0 down\u00a0 to\u00a0 Jerusalem, Michael, the angel, guiding him, and when he came to the Red Sea he passed over it, according to his wont, without wetting his feet.\u00a0 Having crossed the sea he came to Jerusalem, and he went round and visited all the holy places. \u00a0He returned to the land of Tegre and talked and mixed with all the saints; and he went down to Jerusalem a second and a third time, and wished to dwell there. \u00a0The Holy Spirit said unto him, \u201cGo back to the land of Muladek, for that is thy lot,\u201d\u00a0 and going back he visited Abba Yohanni of Debra\u00a0 Damo.\u00a0\u00a0 Thence\u00a0 he\u00a0 went\u00a0 down\u00a0 and\u00a0 traveled\u00a0 on\u00a0 towards\u00a0 Bur,\u00a0 and\u00a0 he\u00a0 found Medhaninne \u2018Egzi\u2019E, in a place the name of which is Gwonaguena, and that saint gave him the garb of the monkhood, and prophesied to him that he should become the father of all the monks of Tegre, and the son of Abba Samuel of Waldebba, and of all the teachers who were in Tegre.<\/p>\n

When our father Takla Haimanot had gone out from Tegre, he went to the place of Hayk and gave to Iyesus Moa the cap and the cloak.\u00a0 Thence having gone out and passed through all the deserts, he came to the land of Showa, and he dwelt in the desert of Geda for many days. \u00a0Then, he departed to the land of Gerarya, and he made a cell among the rocks and he went out neither by day nor by night.\u00a0 His disciples were in number seventeen, and many came to him, both men and women, and they became monks and widows, and they lived in one house; but no man had knowledge of any woman, because Satan was fettered by prayer.\u00a0 Then, he built in his cell a kind of wall to lean against, and he fixed therein sharp points, behind him, on his right hand, and on his left, so that they could pierce his body. \u00a0And having stood in the cell too long, the thigh bone of one of his legs broke, and then he stood up on one foot for seven years. \u00a0Our Lord Jesus Christ came unto him, with our Lady Mary, and with the prophets and apostles, and the righteous, and the martyrs, and Michael and Gabriel, and He said unto him, \u201cO My beloved, thou dost resemble Me in My suffering, and I will make thee My equal in My kingdom.\u00a0 And behold, thy weakness in this world is ended, and it hath been accepted by Me. \u00a0Come, that henceforth thou mayest inherit everlasting life\u201d; and then He gave him the promise concerning those who should call upon his name, and celebrate his commemoration. \u00a0Then, the saint became slightly sick of the plague, and he died at a good old age, his days being ninety-nine years and eight months. \u00a0They wrapped him in cloths with reverence and praise, and buried him in his rock.<\/p>\n

Source: The Ethiopian Synaxarium page 714-716<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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