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Mäsqäl-Mo'a
? fl. c. early 13th century
Orthodox
Ethiopia


Mäsqäl-Mo'a, Abba (of uncertain date, perhaps fl. c. early 13th century A.D.), was a monk who was a spiritual son of Abba Krestos-Bézanä and spiritual father of Abba Yohanni of Däbrä Damo, according to the Gädlä Täklä-Haymanot.

Richard K. P. Pankhurst


Bibliography:

E. A. Wallis Budge, The Life and Miracles of Takla Haymânôt (London, 1906), 189, 218.


This article is reproduced, with permission, from The Dictionary of Ethiopian Biography, Vol. 1 'From Early Times to the End of the Zagwé Dynasty c. 1270 A.D.,' copyright © 1975, edited by Belaynesh Michael, S. Chojnacki and Richard Pankhurst, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. All rights reserved.