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The monastery is built with curved wood panels, painted ceilings and walls dedicated to the legend of Abuna
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recounts the story, "when Abba
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stood by to give directions, the serpent folded Abba
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His feast day is on Ṭəqəmt 14 in the
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is attributed. Besides Abba
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