ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the nine saints of Ethiopia. They are: Afse; Garima; Guba; Liqanos; Pantalewon; Sahma; Yemata; Za Mikael Aregawi; and Libanos or Mata'a. It also focuses on the lives of the saints. Carlo Conti Rossini began a process of analysis of Ethiopian historical documents, in his case dealing with the legends of the Zagwe. Since then, historians have entered profoundly into such text criticism, scholars such as Manfred Kropp, Alessandro Bausi, Gianfrancesco Lusini and others offering new perspectives on the royal chronicles, hagiographies and other literature. It is enough to observe, in the work of a modern Ethiopian scholar, the critique or numerous gadlat of these monks who spread Christianity in the south. The Syrian influences were renewed in an unexpectedly immediate way with the presence of Syrian ecclesiastics in Ethiopia in late Zagwe times.
