Common Hagiographical Patterns in the Ethiopic Manuscript: Gädlä St. Fəqərtä Krəstos
Abstract
The main objective of this article is to demonstrate common Ethiopic hagiographical patterns in Gädlä Fəqərtä Krəstos. St. FƏqƏrtä KrƏstos is one of the prominent saints of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahədo Church and she was one of the outstanding figures of the 17thc female saints. In Ethiopian hagiographies we find common characters and expressions within the hagiography of Saints. Mainly the hagiographies have inter-textual relations with each other and usually they focus on the life of the Saint’s parents and their childlessness, the annunciation by an Angel, the birth, struggle and miracles of the Saint, common expression of the beginning and end of the hagiographies. . . etc. As the Ethiopic hagiography, the writer of the hagiography of St. Fəqərtä Krəstos follows the pattern of other and local hagiography of Saints. This article is a part of the PhD dissertation work of the main author of this article at Addis Ababa University with the title of “Gädlä St. FƏqƏrtä KrƏstos: Critical Edition with Annotated Translation.”
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