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Details: A Madagascan Roman Catholic teacher and professed member of the Secular Franciscan Order, Lucien Botovasoa lived from 1908 to 14 April 1947. Botovasoa spent his entire life as a teacher and was committed to educating kids in both religious and secular subjects. In 1940, his desire for the monastic...
Details: Saint Ephigenia of Ethiopia or Iphigenia of Ethiopia, also called Iphigenia of Abyssinia, is a folk saint whose life is told in the Golden Legend as a virgin converted to Christianity and then consecrated to God by St. Matthew the Apostle, who was spreading the Gospel to the region...
Details: Saint Ephigenia of Ethiopia or Iphigenia of Ethiopia, also called Iphigenia of Abyssinia, is a folk saint whose life is told in the Golden Legend as a virgin converted to Christianity and then consecrated to God by St. Matthew the Apostle, who was spreading the Gospel to the region...
Details: Saint Ephigenia of Ethiopia or Iphigenia of Ethiopia, also called Iphigenia of Abyssinia, is a folk saint whose life is told in the Golden Legend as a virgin converted to Christianity and then consecrated to God by St. Matthew the Apostle, who was spreading the Gospel to the region...
Details: Kaleb, also known as Saint Elesbaan, was King of Aksum, situated in modern-day Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia. Kaleb invaded Yemen around 520, to overthrow Dhu Nuwas, a Jew who was persecuting the Christian community of Najran. After much fighting, Kaleb's soldiers eventually routed Yusuf's forces....
Details: Kaleb, also known as Saint Elesbaan, was King of Aksum, situated in modern-day Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia. Kaleb invaded Yemen around 520, to overthrow Dhu Nuwas, a Jew who was persecuting the Christian community of Najran. After much fighting, Kaleb's soldiers eventually routed Yusuf's forces....
Details: Kaleb, also known as Saint Elesbaan, was King of Aksum, which was situated in modern-day Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia. Kaleb invaded Yemen around 520, to overthrow Dhu Nuwas, a Jew who was persecuting the Christian community of Najran. After much fighting, Kaleb's soldiers eventually routed Yusuf'...
Details: Martin de Porres Velázquez (9 December 1579 – 3 November 1639) was a mixed-race Dominican Order lay brother from Peru who was beatified by Pope Gregory XVI in 1837 and canonized by Pope John XXIII in 1962. His father was Spanish and his mother was of Peruvian and African descent....
Details: Martin de Porres Velázquez (9 December 1579 – 3 November 1639) was a mixed-race Dominican Order lay brother from Peru who was beatified by Pope Gregory XVI in 1837 and canonized by Pope John XXIII in 1962. His father was Spanish and his mother was of Peruvian and African descent....
Details: Martin de Porres Velázquez (9 December 1579 – 3 November 1639) was a mixed-race Dominican Order lay brother from Peru who was beatified by Pope Gregory XVI in 1837 and canonized by Pope John XXIII in 1962. His father was Spanish and his mother was of Peruvian and African descent....
Details: Moses the Black also known as Abba Moses the Robber, the Ethiopian, and the Strong, was an ascetic monk and priest in Egypt in the fourth century AD, and a notable Desert Father. He is highly venerated in both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Church, making...
Details: Ghébr-Michael (1791 – 30 July 1855) was an Ethiopian Roman Catholic priest and Congregation of the Mission postulant. He professed as a monk in the Coptic Orthodox Church in 1813 and subsequently met Giustino de Jacobis on a journey. That unexpected meeting would eventually change his life since de Jacobis...
Details: Blessed Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta was a religious sister from Congo who was killed by invading rebels fighting the 1964 civil war. Anuarite Nengapeta was born in Congo in 1939, and was educated in the first mission in her region of Africa. When she entered the religious community of the...
Details: The squared cross—in which each of the crossbars is of equal length—is among the most common iterations of the form used in Ethiopian Orthodox art. Artist-monks created nearly infinite variations upon the shape, frequently employing multiple cross motifs within a single cross to emphasize its symbolic importance....
Details: Kenyan nuns and sisters sit inside a church ahead of Kenya and Africa's first Roman Catholic beatification ceremony. Final preparations are being made to host thousands of worshippers, officials and visitors who are expected to congregate 23 May for the event in the town of Nyeri approx....
Details: Archbishop Peter Kairo (centre) from Nyeri diocese blesses ceremonial chalices during a rehersal for Africa's first Roman Catholic beatification ceremony. Final preparations were being made to host thousands of worshippers, officials and visitors who are expected to congregate 23 May for the event in the town of...
Details: Photo taken during the last day of the Second World Congress of Divine Mercy at the Shrine in Łagiewniki. 🙏🏽Please give proper attribution. "Kapłani z Czarnego Lądu" flickr photo by DrabikPany https://flickr.com/photos/drabikpany/6570528163 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license. Free Download Please...
Details This cross was created in the province of Tigray, near the Red Sea, the birthplace of Ethiopia's earliest kingdom and of Christianity in Africa. A small corpus of Ethiopian Christian works from before the seventeenth century has survived. This exceptional creation, in which a highly unusual interplay...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! ROME, VATICAN 27 April: Images from the Canonization of Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II by Pope Francis and the Catholic Church. This event, attended by millions is amongst the most important in current...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Senior clergymen walk past President Uhuru Kenyatta (centre) during a ceremony to mark the beatification of Sister Irene Stefani, an Italian nun and missionary who is beloved in Nyeri and its environs for her selfless service...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Worshippers at Holy Angel Catholic Church on Chicago’s south side. It was the city’s largest black Catholic Church at the time (1973). The pastor was Father George H. Clements, who was a leader in...
Please Subscribe or Donate to Help Keep This Site Free! The Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon is a version of the Christian Bible used in the two Oriental Orthodox churches of the Ethiopian and Eritrean traditions: the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. At 81 books, it...
In a photograph taken 23 May 2015, and made available by Make It Kenya, priests gather in front of a dias and an image of Sister Irene Stefani during a ceremony to mark her beatification. Sister Irene was an Italian nun and missionary who is beloved in Nyeri and its...
In a photograph taken 21 May 2015, and made available by Make It Kenya, a man holds a bible while others claps their hands in prayer during rehearsals ahead of Kenya and Africa's first Roman Catholic beatification ceremony. Final preparations are being made to host thousands of worshippers,...
