Excerpt from Ethiopica and Amharica: A List of Works in the New York Public LibraryThe next event of importance was the arrival, c. 5 00, of the Nine Saints, so celebrated in the history of Abyssinia. Their names are as follows: (1) za-mika'el Aragawi, (2) Pantaleon, (3) Isaac Gar'ima, (4) Afsé, (5) Guba, (6) Alef, sometimes called 'os, (7) Mata' or Yem'ati, (8) Liqanos, (9) Sehma. The first three are the most renowned, and extraordinary miracles have been attributed to them. Their arrival riveted the hold of Christianity on the country, and to this day their names are held in the utmost reverence. They are said to have come from Rum, i. E., from Byzantium, but Weld Blundell says from the resemblance of their names to those of well-known monasteries in Syria have been proved to be members of that Church and natives of that country. (royal Chronicle, p.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.