Portugeuse Texts
The Spanish priest sent to Ethiopia in 1603 who converted the emperor in 1612
Who is Pedro Páez?
The emperor of Ethiopia who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1612
Emperor Susenyos
The amount of women Belcher discusses in the article
What is seven?
The name of ONE of the five Portuguese Jesuits who lived in Ethiopia the early 17th century (you can name any of the 5 it does not matter which)
Who is Manoel de Almeida/Manoel Barradas/Jerónimo Lobo/Alfonso Mendes/Pedro Páez?
Of a total of over 200 Habesha saints, this number marks the estimated amount of seventeenth-century women who resisted conversion to Roman Catholicism
What is 9?
This cultural practice allowed Habesha royal women to maintain their power in marriage.
What is marrying outside the royal family?
This Habesha monk provided an eyewitness account of Abyssinian resistance to Roman Catholicism, which he shared with German scholar Hiob Ludolf
Who is abba Gorgoryos
The name of one of the main sources of Habesha women being at the front of the resistance against conversion
What is the Tarikä nägäśt?
Seventeenth-century sources from both the Portuguese and Habesha perspectives suggest that these influential figures were key in expelling Portuguese forces and Roman Catholicism from Ethiopia
Who are Habesha royal women?
Portuguese missionaries Lobo and Mendes attributed the failure of Roman Catholicism in Abyssinia to the influence of these figures close to the emperor
Who are the emperor’s senior wife, eldest daughter, daughter-in-law, and niece?
This term was used by many Habesha who resisted the emperor’s call to convert to Roman Catholicism, rejecting it as an unwelcome foreign influence.
What is “the filthy faith of the foreigners”?
The saint who was executed then rose from the dead to threaten the emperor and become a nun
Who is Feqertä Krestos?