Titles
- Vita of Cornelius the Centurion
- ገድለ፡ ቀርኔልዮስ፡, Gadla Qarnelyos
Description
(from short Synaxary version) Cornelius, a general and righteous man. He lived in the days of the holy Apostles, and he fought the good fight strenuously, and was well pleasing unto God. And an angel appeared unto him and commanded him to send men to invite Peter the apostle to come to him, so that he might hear from him what was right. And when Peter the apostle came to him he told him, and all those who were with him, the word of our Lord Jesus Christ; and Cornelius believed, and he and all his house were baptized; and Peter the apostle appointed him to the Church of Alexandria. And when he arrived there he found [the city] filled with the worship of idols, and he baptized many of the men thereof and baptized them with Christian baptism. And Demetrius the governor believed, and Cornelius baptized him and all the people of his house with Christian baptism. And he passed his whole life in fighting like the Apostles, and he was the first of the Gentiles who believed [on Christ]Translation from Arabic into Gǝʿǝz arranged by ʿaqqābe saʿat Yosef, most probably by 'Sǝmʿon the Egyptian priest' (cp. also EMML 1824, f. 63r)
Contributors
- Alessandro Bausi, general editor
- Eugenia Sokolinski, editor
History
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