Earliest-known biography of Ethiopian woman features religious struggle and same-sex love
Kait Howard
In seventeenth-century Ethiopia, a religious noblewoman named Walatta Petros (1592–1642) left her husband to lead the struggle against the Jesuit conversion of Ethiopian Christians to Roman Catholicism. Eventually elevated to sainthood for… Read more »
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