✞✞✞Abune Senoda (Shenouda)✞✞✞
=>Senoda means “Trustworthy”. The Saint was born in Gojjam from a noble family of Shewa.
✞Abune Senoda [during his ministry] has split a serpent that was worshipped at a place called Debre Tsemona adjacent to Debre Dimah (at Gojjam) into two by making the sign of the cross over it with his hand cross. Thereafter, he taught and baptized the people and built a church for them in the name of our Lady.
✞The Saint has a similar account to that of St. George the Arch-martyr (Prince of the Martyrs). Abune Senoda saved a girl like St. George that was about to be sacrificed in the wilderness to a serpent after he had killed the beast by the sign of the cross. The Emperor of the time, Hezbe Nagne (early 15th century), who had listened to the counsel of wicked men, accused the Saint with, “You say/prophesize that my throne will be given to another” and had Abba Senoda imprisoned while his hands and legs were chained. Later on, he had his hand severed. Nonetheless, the Mother of Light attached a luminous hand for the Saint.
✞The Icon that St. Luke drew, found at Gethsemane, used to appear to and converse with him. While the Emperor afflicted him much, after an angel appeared and told him the day of his departure and the Saint said farewell to his disciples, the monarch had him beheaded on Hedar 17 (November 26). And from his neck gushed water, blood and milk.
✞He was given a covenant that aids the barren.
✞Yekatit 1 (February 8) is the day of the translocation of his relics [from Hayk Island to Gojjam by Abba Makars].
=>Senoda means “Trustworthy”. The Saint was born in Gojjam from a noble family of Shewa.
✞Abune Senoda [during his ministry] has split a serpent that was worshipped at a place called Debre Tsemona adjacent to Debre Dimah (at Gojjam) into two by making the sign of the cross over it with his hand cross. Thereafter, he taught and baptized the people and built a church for them in the name of our Lady.
✞The Saint has a similar account to that of St. George the Arch-martyr (Prince of the Martyrs). Abune Senoda saved a girl like St. George that was about to be sacrificed in the wilderness to a serpent after he had killed the beast by the sign of the cross. The Emperor of the time, Hezbe Nagne (early 15th century), who had listened to the counsel of wicked men, accused the Saint with, “You say/prophesize that my throne will be given to another” and had Abba Senoda imprisoned while his hands and legs were chained. Later on, he had his hand severed. Nonetheless, the Mother of Light attached a luminous hand for the Saint.
✞The Icon that St. Luke drew, found at Gethsemane, used to appear to and converse with him. While the Emperor afflicted him much, after an angel appeared and told him the day of his departure and the Saint said farewell to his disciples, the monarch had him beheaded on Hedar 17 (November 26). And from his neck gushed water, blood and milk.
✞He was given a covenant that aids the barren.
✞Yekatit 1 (February 8) is the day of the translocation of his relics [from Hayk Island to Gojjam by Abba Makars].