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ABBA GABRA MANFAS QUEDDUS
Christianity was brought to Ethiopia in the 4th century, making the Ethiopian Church the oldest branch of the Eastern Orthodox community. Ethiopian religious painting is based on Byzantine pictorial traditions but it exhibits a strong Ethiopian accent in the use of Ethiopian dress and the presence of Ethiopian saints. This cloth icon represents the popular saint Abba Gabra Manfas Queddus, who died around 1433. He was an Ethiopian hermit monk sent by God to live in the desert among sixty lions and sixty leopards. Above the head of the monk is text written in the Orthodox Ge'ez script.
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