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A42562	The church-history of Ethiopia wherein among other things, the two great splendid Roman missions into that empire are placed in their true light : to which are added, an epitome of the Dominican history of that church, and an account of the practices and conviction of Maria of the Annunciation, the famous nun of Lisbon / composed by Michael Geddes ...	Geddes, Michael, 1650?-1713.	1696 (1696)	Wing G444; ESTC R21773	296,122	524

off saith Father Anthony with the following Noble Fable There was upon a time a very ancient man A Lady is put to death for her Religion who being told that a Child was dead made answer Children are tender Creatures and a small matter carries them off and being told afterwards there was a Young man dead he said Considering the rashness of Youth that was no wonder but when be was told that an Old man was dead he wrung his hands and cried as if the world had been at an end imagining death stood ready to arrest him So saith the Emperor you could see Guergis and his Companions suffer without speaking a word in their behalf but now one of your own Sex is to suffer you are all in an uproar to save her but I will have you all know That this Shoestring of Aba Jacob 's whom Guergis had Murthered for being a Roman Priest is strong enough to hang this Sow and all such as she is Father Anthony who was present at all these Executions has in his Relation of them made so true a remark upon the change Popery had wrought on the Emperor's temper The wonderful change Popery had wrought on the tempers of its Converts and on the practice of the Habassins who seldom or never used to put Grandees and much less Ladies to death for Treason or indeed for any other Crime that I shall set it down in his own words Whosoever saith he shall diligently read the History of Ethiopia and shall observe the want of Vindicative Justice that was therein and the Clemency Seltem Saged had used before with all that had Rebelled against him must of necessity reckon his Punishing of Tecla Guergis so severely to have been one of the greatest Miracles that had happened in many years in Ethiopia For let the Church of Rome be what She will as to her working Miracles that are any ways beneficial to Mankind they must be very unjust to her that deny her the honour of working such Miracles as these in the tempers of her Converts But as we shall see hereafter these Miracles of Cruelty did the Fathers no great kindness in Ethiopia at long run Neither were the Cruelties of an unprovoked Persecution at this time in Ethiopia less wonderful than those of War the inhumanity of the former being such as to overtake those An inhumane persecution is raised against the Alexandrians who for Conscience sake had forsaken all that they had in the world and had Buried themselves in Cases and Dens of the Earth out of which when discovered they were either ferreted to be burnt if they would not turn Roman-Catholicks or smoaked to death in them The memory of which Barbarities is to this day so fresh in the minds of the Habassins that as they do still continue to have a great Veneration for those Caves wherein their Brethren suffered Martyrdom so they cannot hear a Jesuit or a Roman-Catholick so much as mentioned but with horror The Patriarch and Fathers reckoning themselves sure of the Emperor after these miraculous cruelties for which they believed the Alexandrians would never be reconciled to him begun to make bolder steps than they had ventured to make before and so the Patriarch having been informed that an Ancient Nobleman who had been of the Council of State and Chamberlain to the Emperor had some Lands which belonged to the Church in his hands he first admonished him to restore them to the Church immediately which the Nobleman having refused to do the Patriarch seeing him afterwards at Mass The Patriarch Excommunicates a great Man for keeping Church-Lands ordered an Excommunication to be pronounced against him the Nobleman having never dreamt of any such Thunderclap is said to have been so astonished by its Curses and Maledictions That he fell upon the ground as if Datham and Abiram to whom the Excommunication had delivered him had been coming upon him like two furies to carry him quick down into Hell but being come to himself again he beseeched the Emperor and the whole Congregation to intercede with the Patriarch in his behalf promising to restore the Lands to the Church immediately which being done the Patriarch absolved him in forma Ecclesiae striking him with a road all the time the Miserere was Singing At which exercise of Discipline though all the true Romanists say the Jesuits rejoiced they that were Hereticks in their hearts were mad to see themselves subjected to such reproachful punishments In this Year the Foundation of the Patriarichal Church was laid at Dancez the Emperor himself having laid the first stone and promised to build it at his own proper cost and as an Earnest of his Devotion for our Lady to whom it was Dedicated he took a Crown of pure Gold off his Head and gave it to be employ'd in gilding the Seats in our Lady's Chappel it was to have been a large Church with three Naves but Popery did not stay long enough in Ethiopia to see it finished For at the same time that its foundations were laid the Emperor's jealousies of his Brother revived again one Melcha Christos who was his first Cousin having assured both the Emperor and the Prince Raz Cella is accused of plotting with the Portugueses to make himself Emperor that Raz Cella was continually plotting with the Patriarch and the Fathers to bring a Portuguese Army into Ethiopia to make himself Emperor in which charge Melcha Christos was seconded by one Lessana Christos who being an Officer of the Army was secured by Raz Cella so soon as he heard of his being one of his accusers and condemned by him to be put to death immediately as an Apostate to the Alexandrian Faith Lessana to prevent the Execution of this Sentence appealed to the Emperor and fearing lest he might be dispatched out of the way before he could have an answer from Court he broke prison but being taken before he could get to the Emperor he had his head chopped off not for Heresy nor for having accused his General but for having broke Jayl But Raz Cella by stopping of Lessana ' s mouth thus did open a Thousand against him and did Confirm the Emperor and the Prince in their former jealousies it being in every body's mouth One of the chief Witnesses against him is murthered by his order that Raz Cella had murther'd Lessana for no other reason but because he was privy to his plotting secretly with the Patriarch and was ready to have proved it upon him if he had been suffered to go to Court The discovery of this plot gave a fatal blow to Popery in Ethiopia every body but especially the Prince being satisfied that considering how odious Raz Cella had rendered himself to the Habassins it could be nothing but his having received some assurances of a Portuguese Army that could have put such fumes into his head so that after this the Prince never gave over persecuting the Patriarch and Fathers

prejudiced against it and the whole Court for its sake so that the Patriarch's Missionaries where-ever they went met with but bad entertainment Two of them going into a Church in Tigre to say Mass were Commanded by a Person of Honour that lived in the Neighbourhood to go and say their Masses somewhere else and not in the Church where his Father who had lived and died in the Alexandrian Faith lay buried but the Missionaries knowing they had the Government on their side made answer That he must not think to terrifie them out of their Duties for Mass they came to say there and Mass they would say Two Mabassin Missionaries are Murthered for saying the Roman Mass The Gentleman finding they were not to be hindered by Threats offered them Money to forbear and when he found that would not do neither he threw himself down upon his Father's grave crying in a mighty Passion that he would be buried with his Father rather than suffer a thing to be done there which he knew must be offensive to his Ghost But the Missionaries taking no notice of his words performed their Masses which provoked the Gentleman to that degree that he had them both Murthered next Night in their Beds The Emperor and the Court kept the Holy Week and Easter with the Patriarch at the Church of Geneta Jesus where Raz Cella the Heroe of the Jesuits Histories with his Captains guarded the Sepulcher all Good-Friday at night and in the procession there were several that whipt themselves after the fashion of Portugal which was a strange sight in Ethiopia The Patriarch having published the Six first General Councils with a Catechism in the Habassin Tongue begun a Visitation but finding himself not able to endure the fatigue thereof he cut it short leaving it to the new Bishop who was expected daily from the Indies The Emperor upon his having been told that the Patriarch had demanded no Fees of the Clergy at his Visitation is said to have reflected upon the former Abuna's who not having so great an Estate as he had bestowed upon the Patriarch did use to take some saying of them That they seemed to have held Visitations for no other end but to get Money the thing in the World the Roman Prelates and Jesuits hate the most In the Year 1627 the Gauls made a great Incursion into Ethiopia and having surprized the Viceroy Buco who was a great Stickler for Popery they put him and his whole Army to the Sword but they were afterwards drive home by Raz Cella who do's all the great things in the Jesuits Histories But the ill success of Julius Joanel and others who had taken up Arms in defence of their Religion had not so far cowed the Zeal of the Habassins as to make them submit quietly to the Establishment of Popery and the discontented Grandees which are what no Government ever wanted knowing the people to be extreamly angry with the Emperor and the Court are said to have made use of their Religious resentments for the carrying on of their own private designs And accordingly Tecla Guergis the Viceroy of Tigre who was Married to a Daughter of the Emperor's Published a Proclamation on the Fifth of November wherein having declared himself of the Alexandrian Faith and swore to Defend it with the last drop of his Blood against all the world A fifth Croisade raised against the Emperor He ordered all that were of the same faith to bring in all the Crucifixes and Reliques which had been forced upon them by the Fathers and having got great numbers of them into his hands he made a Bonfire of them all telling the Monks and Soldiers who were rejoicing at the sight That they might see by this that he was in earnest and not contented with having given them this assurance of his having absolutely broke with his Father-in-Law and the Jesuits He Murthered his own Chaplain in the sight of the Camp because he refused to return to the Alexandrian Faith giving his body afterwards to the Officers of his Army who with their Cimiters cut it in a thousand pieces When the Emperor heard of this new Croisade he sent Kebo Christus with an Army to suppress it in the beginning who having Marched day and night was up with Guergis sooner than he expected It is routed and the General of it who was the Emperor's Son-in-Law is taken Guergis nevertheless trusting to the Zeal and Number of his Forces accepted of a Battel when it was offered him by Kebo who having encouraged his men with a short Speech dispersed the Alexandrians with the first shock he gave them few of them having been killed fighting besides Twelve Monks Keb● who was a Bigotted Papist made a great slaughter sparing neither Man Woman nor Child and Guergis who had hid himself in a Cave being taken three days after the fight was sent by him under a strong Guard to the Emperor by whom he was condemned to be burnt to Ashes not for his Treason but for his Apostacy and the Bonfire he had made who having desired to speak with a Roman Priest before he died had Father Antonio sent to him by the Patriarch with full powers to absolve him from all censures in case he found him penitent Guergis hoping that his turning Roman-Catholick would have helped him to a pardon told the Father he was extreamly sorry for what he had done and desired nothing so much as to be reconciled again to the Roman Church being resolved to die in her Faith The Father having made him abjure the Alexandrian Faith confessed and absolved him from all the censures he had incurred but Guergis perceiving that all that he was like to get by having turned Papist was only to be hanged in the prison as a Rebel and not burnt publickly alive as an Heretick when he was brought to the place of Execution he declared openly That he died in the Alexandrian and not in the Roman Faith The Emperor when he heard of this sent an order to bring him immediately out of prison to hang him on a Tree that stood near the Palace When the Officers came to the prison they found him hanging and perceiving that he was not quite dead they cut him down and carrying him to that Tree hanged him upon it The Emperor carried all the Court-Ladies to entertain them with this sad spectacle and having commanded them to look on the Dead body he told them That from that day forward they would do well to look to themselves and if they either rejected or forsook the Roman Faith not to expect a pardon for it since he had denied one to his own Son-in-Law for having done it and to terrify the tender Sex the more about fifteen days after he commanded Adivato a Lady of great Quality to be hanged before them upon the same Tree for whose pardon when the Empress and all the Ladies of the Court had thrown themselves at his feet he shaked them