The Jesuit Pedro Páez and Ethiopian Miraculous Traditions
- Date of account
- Páez’s account written early 17th century; published later
- Location
- Ethiopian Empire, especially Lake Tana and northern Ethiopia
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Pedro Páez’s Historia de Etiopía contains descriptions of Ethiopian Christianity, monastic practice, saints, relics, dreams, miracles, and religious encounters encountered during his mission in the early seventeenth century. It is a concrete source for comparing Catholic and Ethiopian Christian understandings of visionary or extraordinary experience. The work combines direct travel observation, local reports, theological interpretation, and apologetic purpose. Researchers should identify the original Spanish passages and compare them with Ethiopian sources, since Páez’s categories can convert local devotional claims into Catholic miracle narratives.
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