(Historic tidbits about Ethiopia on this date on July 31) --- Today hosts the Roman Catholic feast day of Justin de Jacobis. Saint Justin de Jacobiswas, was born on October 9 1800 and was an Italian Lazarist missionary who became Vicar Apostolic of Abyssinia and titular Bishop of Nilopolis. In 1839 Saint Justin was appointed first Prefect Apostolic of Ethiopia and entrusted with the foundation of Catholic missions in that country. After laboring with great success in Ethiopia for eight years, he was made titular Bishop of Nilopolis in 1847, and shortly afterwards Vicar Apostolic, but he refused the episcopal dignity until it was finally forced upon him in 1849. Despite imprisonment, exile and every other kind of persecution from the local Ethiopian Church, he founded numerous Catholic missions, built schools in Agame and Akele Guzay, Eritrea for the training of a native clergy, founding the beginnings of the Ethiopian Catholic Church. He died at Hebo in the Aligide Valley, while on his way to Halai (in modern Eritrea) where he hoped to regain his health. , Saint Justin was beatified on July 25, 1939 and canonized as a saint on October 26, 1975. (source: Quoting Wikipedia ) --- On this date on July 31, 1948, the Chicago Tribune reports that Ethiopia would close borders if Eritrea is given to Italy. --- On this date on July 31, 1508, Wikipedia reports that Ethiopian Emperor Naod is reported to have fallen in battle with invading Ottomans near the town of Jenjero. Naod, born 1494 at Gabarge, was a member of the Solomonic dynasty, and was the second son of Baeda Maryam and his second wife Kalyupe (also called Calliope). Naod is remembered for beginning construction on a lavish church in Amhara, which was decorated with gold leaf and known as Mekane Selassie. However, he died before it was completed, and he was buried in a tomb inside the church; his son Emperor Lebna Dengel completed the construction in 1530. (Portuguese Jesuit explorer) Francisco Álvares records seeing the church as it was being constructed, and mentions that he was kept from entering it by the local clergy. However, not long after its completion, Imam Ahmad Gragn managed to penetrate the province of Amhara, and on November 3, 1531, he personally pillaged the structure and set it afire. (Source: Wikipedia) (source: Quoting Wikipedia ; The conquest of Abyssinia by Shihab al-Din A?mad ibn ?Abd al-Qadir ?Arabfaqi)
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:47:21 +0000
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