Patience, Suffering, and Tolerance: The Experience of Defeat and Exile among the Jesuits of Ethiopia (1632–59)

Abstract This article explores the last letters written by Catholic patriarch of Ethiopia in exile Afonso Mendes, which illustrate that, face defeat, Mendes has chosen to write history martyrdom, sacrifice, and shedding blood for sake faith. A group requires a sense connection through temporary axis. Mendes’s choice these years corresponds will generating cohesion space continuity time that confronted rupture, disillusionment, deterioration. might have attempted establish framework would allow him alleviate tension caused clash between original aspirations flawed fulfillment objective. Therefore, redaction processes martyrdom creation calendar allows transition into place where harmonious relationship past present is generated.