This paper is a reflexion on the three Ways of Life of St. Fǝqǝrtä Krǝstos as reflected in the Ethiopic hagiography, “Gädlä’ St. FƏqƏrtä KrƏstos” which contains her life, work, struggle, covenant and mälk’Ə. It is well known that Ethiopia had many great women martyrs and monastics that are recognized as saints by the Ethiopian Orthodox TäwhƏdo Church (EOTC). Among these women saints, St. FƏqƏrtä KrƏstos had played a vital role in the religious and social life of the 17thc. period of Ethiopia and she is venerated as a great martyr, a monastic and a prominent saint. When we see the lives of Christian women saints in general, most of them were virgins, and some of them entered in to the monastic life after the repose of their spouse. So the hagiography of women saints generally reveals a virgin woman becoming a nun and living her entire life as a monastic or becoming a martyr; and sometimes both. There are also many married martyrs who have received the crown of martyrdom while witnessing for their Faith. Thus most of their lives generally exhibit either of the two ways of life, i.e., monasticism and/or martyrdom or married life and martyrdom. However, in the case of St. FƏqƏrtä KrƏstos, amazingly she had lived all the three ways of life, which is quite unusual and rare. She was a married woman who had got married in obedience of her parents’ will and receiving the crown of martyrdom thereafter for her Faith. However what makes her life quite different from other martyrs is that she was raised by the Lord from death and had continued her third way of life as a monastic. As a result, she had lived three ways of life in one body.
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Hagiography of Women Saints, Women Body, Women Ways of Life, St. Fǝqǝrtä Krǝstos, Abbess of a Monastery
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Zewdie Gebreegziabher, Abba Petros Solomon. (2022). Three Ways of Life in One Woman Body of a Married Mother, a Martyr, and an Abbess of a Monastery: St. Fǝqǝrtä Krǝstos. International Journal of Literature and Arts, 10(6), 344-351. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijla.20221006.12
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