Ethiopian Artists with their children

A secret significantly more importantly encompasses the old city of Axum. A few hundred meters from the group of transcendent pillars are a huge moure compound encompassing two places of worship. Between these two holy places, the two committed to Saint-Marie de Sion are the main parties remaining from an old church and a fenced, closed and intensively protected depositary, which contains the real arc of the Alliance. The legends say that some time in the past, all this area was a peat bog occupied by diabolic spirits. God has helped neighborhood individuals by boiling near sacrodam Gi and throwing a wonderful residue from paradise that evaporated the marsh, scattered the sneaky spirits and accused the local of a supernatural force. After hundreds of years, sanctuaries hundreds of years were built on the slope and where the peat bog. Around this blessed place has developed urban areas of pre-axumite kingdoms and Axum it.

In 331 AD, the Sovereign Axum Ite Azanan was changed to Christianity by the Syrian priest Fresenius. On the establishments of old agnostic sanctuaries, an extraordinary Church Sainte-Marie was inherent in 372 after JC. This congregation, probably the most cash Christian church of sub-Saharan Africa, has been visited in the mid-1520s by the Portuguese adventurer, Francisco Alvarez. Composition of the Congregation, Alvarez says:

"It is extremely huge and has five naves of a decent width and an incredible, vaulted length above, and each of the vaults is concealed and the roof and the sides are completely painted; it also has a set after our design .. This respectable church has an exceptionally huge circuit, erased with slabs similar to gravestones, and has a large area of ​​origin and is surrounded by another huge fenced in the area as the mass of 'a vast city or city. "

What elements clarify the incredible size of this congregation disconnected if somewhere in the distant batteries of Northern Ethiopia, so far from the circle of Christianity? A clarification is that a rich lord of an amazing kingdom assembled the incredible church. More convincing is the thought that it has worked to house the famous relic, the Holy Arc of the Alliance.

The arc of the alliance and its seemingly celestial substance are one of the incredible secrets of classic times. His story begins with Moses. The customary author of Judaism, Moses was introduced in the world in Egypt, the child of a Hebrew slave. The Hebrews had been in subjugation in Egypt for a long time of about 1650 - 1250 AV. J.-C. Near the farthest limit of this period, an Egyptian Minister at the assistance of Pharaoh predicted that a young person would be introduced in the world to the Hebrews who would free them one day of their subjugation. The Pharaoh, hearing this prediction, asked that each young man has worn in the world to the Hebrews to be slaughtered by suffocant. In order to prevent his death, the people of Moses went up in a small container, whom they were denied on the Nile. He was found by the Girl of Pharaoh and thus brought in this way as a child embraced from the regal family. During his childhood, he was widely taught in the exclusive and delighted customs of the Egyptian secret schools. At forty, Moses found that his unique people, the Hebrews, were under subjugation to the Egyptians. Angry against this ruthless treatment, he shot down an Egyptian regulator and escaped to banish in the wild Sinai.