Ghébrē-Michael
Ghébrē-Michael, CM (1791 - 30 July 1855) was a priest of the Ethiopian Catholic Church and postulant of the Congregation of the Mission.
Born in 1791, he became a monk in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in 1813 and later met Giustino de Jacobis on a pilgrimage. Jacobis would later receive Ghébrē-Michael into the Catholic Church and ordained him as a priest. After the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria appointed a new Miaphysite bishop for the whole Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the new prelate set out to eliminate both Ghébrē-Michael and de Jacobis. After the accession of Tewodros II as Emperor of Ethiopia in 1855, Ghébrē-Michael was imprisoned, tortured for refusing to renounce Catholicism or the teachings of the Council of Chalcedon and later died due to ill treatment.
Ghébrē-Michael was beatified by Pope Pius XI in 1926.
In the Martyrology
- July 14 Blessed Ghébrē Michele, Vincentian priest, martyr of Ethiopia