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190 - Deacon Henok Elias - Inside the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

The Symbolic World

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The Zayunagis Chantor in La Libella

Christmas is the largest one celebrated there, but Pasca is also big in La Libella. Large churches would have 300 clergy trained to pray at every hour of the day. A Zayunagis Chantor will chant a prayer between 3 AM and maybe 4 30am every day. The idea is that Ethiopia was never fully conquered by an outside force.

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