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Document Details : Title: Giyorgis Säglawi and the Advancement of the Gǝ'ǝz Liturgy Author(s): KIDANE, Habtemichael Journal: Orientalia Christiana Periodica Volume: 91 Issue: 1 Date: 2025 Pages: 93-134 DOI: 10.2143/OCP.91.1.3294860 Abstract : Giyorgis of Gaséčča or Säglawi is well known for his contribution to the development of the Ge’ez Liturgy. Giyorgis is one of the great monks that the Ethiopian Church is proud of, most prolific religious author of the fifteenth century (d. 1426). He was great not because he succeeded his retired father to serve as chaplain at the royal court, but because he was greatly involved in the creativity that modified and revitalized the Ethiopian liturgical tradition of his time and for his religious literature authoring books, composing hymns, prayers in his own language: the Ge’ez. Giyorgis is known also for his great liturgical contribution extending towards the composition of Anaphoras and the Prayer of the Hours. The latter has two types: short form suitable for the faithful and the clergy that are pastorally committed, and a longer one, which is more suitable for those that are committed in the ascetical life and ceaseless prayer life in the monastic life. The Book of the Hours together with the Dəggwa, Liturgy of the Hours, can be considered the lungs of the church. In fact, sometimes during the Liturgical Year, the Dəggwa Liturgy of the Hours, and the Sä‘atat of Giyorgis, are celebrated simultaneously and in the same Church. Giyorgis is also known for his apologetical books of 30 Homilies, called the Book of the Mystery. It was only after his death that the Church began to read the Book of the Mystery. |
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