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Samuel of Waldebba

Ethiopian saint

SaintDate unknown

Feast: 21 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born

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Died

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Beatified

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not on record

Canonised

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not on record

Who they were

Samuel of Waldebba (Ge'ez ሳሙኤል ዘሀገረ ዋልድባ) was a late 14th and early 15th century Ethiopian saint of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. He is considered to be the founder of Waldebba Monastery in the Tigray Region in Ethiopia and is one of Ethiopia's most prominent saints.

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The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

Limited information available on this saint.

Sources

Wikidata Q7413010 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
English Wikipedia — Samuel of Waldebba (CC BY-SA)

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