Mazgaba Maṣāḥəft

Title

• Dabra Zamaddo's church and the three huge boulders that ripped off the cliff and destroyed the roof and walls of the church kitchen

Description

Above the church of Mary at Dabra Zamaddo there stood a mountain. One day three large boulders broke off the cliff and came down toward the church. The first boulder missed. The second hit the beta lehem ("house of bread;" i.e., the building where the Eucharist is prepared), causing a wall to collapse and the roof to cave in while clergymen were inside. However, Mary protected the clergymen, saving them and the other buildings from harm. The third boulder thundered toward the shrine just as Abba Baʾamina Egziʾabher was emerging from it. When he saw this, he called out in the names of Abbuna Bartalomewos, Mary, and Jesus Christ, commanding the boulder to stop where it was. The boulder miraculously stopped, suspended in midair.