Title
- Dabra Zamaddo's icon sǝʿǝla Adhǝno is exiled to Ruha (Lalibela?) in Ethiopia
Description
When the monks of Dabra Zamaddo fled to other countries, they brought the monastery’s icon of Mary with them and left it in the city of Ruha. Before they left, they also took as many of the monastery’s books as they could carry and stashed them in a cave, the entrance to which was adjacent to the shrine. This cave was perpetually wet, since spring water seeped in from above and dripped down the cavern’s sides. Despite sitting in this wet cave for fifty years, and despite being made of parchment and ink, the books remained miraculously intact, thanks to Mary’s intervention.
Contributors
- Wendy Laura Belcher, editor
- Jeremy Brown, editor
- Taylor Eggan, contributor
History
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Taylor Eggan on :
(PEMM) typed incipit and summary at https://pemm.princeton.edu/stories/1012 -
Wendy Laura Belcher on :
(PEMM) identified the miracle
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