Gädlä Ewostatewos

Record summary

Gädlä Ewostatewos recounts the career of Ewostatewos, founder of the Ethiopian Eustathian movement, whose ascetic travels and disputes over Sabbath observance shaped medieval Ethiopian Christianity. The text can be compared with religious journey narratives in which physical travel, pilgrimage, exile and divine authorization overlap. Its miracle and vision material belongs to hagiographic legitimation, while the ecclesiastical controversy has independently traceable historical dimensions. Multiple versions and later editing complicate efforts to reconstruct the saint’s itinerary directly from the text.