'Life' and 'Miracles'of Abunä Akalä Kr¿stos

This volume, written by Abba Isay?yyas, is a hagiographical history of "Akal?" Kr?stos, a sixteenth-century Gond?rite prince. When there was a rumor that the prince's father, G?lawdewos, was preparing to overthrow his brother Emperor Fasil?d?s (1632-1667) - 'he amassed at that time a private army of mighty ones' - a scheme was designed for G?lawdewos to appear at the palace. However, he was slain as soon as he arrived. Akal? Kr?stos was in school at that time. When one of his father's attendants informed him about his father's murder, he fled for his life. He walked from school in Gond?r to the Monastery of D?br? Libanos in Shoa where he took the monastic garb and became a great ascetic. He visited the Monastery of "Abun?" G?br? M?nf?s Q?ddus (Z?qwala) before he returned home and built a modest monastery called M?dr? Zoga.