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Abuna Aregawi (also called Za-Mika’el ‘Aragawi) was a sixth-century Syrian monk whom tradition holds founded the monastery Debre Damo said to have been commissioned by Emperor Gebre Mesqel. He is one of the Nine Saints of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church who claims he came from various parts of the Roman Empire to escape persecution after the Council of Chalcedon (451).