The Ethiopian Synaxarium’s accounts of saints’ journeys and heavenly revelation
- Date of account
- 1990–2009 translations and liturgical use; cumulative medieval tradition
- Location
- Ethiopia
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Ethiopian Synaxarium, or Senksar, organizes commemorations of saints, martyrs, angels, and sacred events and is embedded in Ethiopian Orthodox liturgical life. Its entries include ascetic encounters, angelic interventions, journeys to holy places, martyrdom visions, and revelations concerning judgment or salvation. The corpus provides many identifiable comparative units, but each account belongs to hagiography rather than modern incident reporting. Editions and translations available during 1990–2009 should be checked against Ge’ez manuscripts because names, dates, and narrative details can vary across versions.
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