Jarede (santo)

Saint Yared (Ge'ez: ቅዱስ ያሬድ; 25 April 505 – 20 May 571) was an Ethiopian Aksumite composer, hymnwriter and scholar. He was credited with inventing the traditional music of Ethiopia, he developed the music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Eritrean Orthodox Church. In a broader context, he helped establish liturgical music in the Coptic Orthodox Church and Syriac Orthodox Church, as well as create the Ethiopian musical notation system. Additionally, he composed Zema, or the chant tradition of Ethiopia, particularly the chants of the Ethiopian-Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Churches, which are st

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Coping with seasonality in Amhara households of Wogda, Central Ethiopia
Destitution in the north-eastern highlands of Ethiopia
Destitution in the North-Eastern Highlands of Ethiopia (Fss Studies on Poverty)
Household resources, strategies and food security in Ethiopia
Land redistribution and socio-economic change in Ethiopia

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Active from: 1949-10-07

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Saint.honorific_prefix: Saint
Saint.name: Yared
Saint.image: Yared sings before Meskel.jpg
Saint.titles: Composer
Saint.birth_place: Axum, Kingdom of Aksum
Saint.death_place: Semien Mountains
Saint.feast_day: 19 May
Saint.attributes: Old man wearing traditional attire and holding walking stick (mequamia), tsenatsel in front of Deggua book and three chants: Ge'ez, Ezel and Araray depicted as doves
Saint.venerated_in: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo ChurchEthiopian Catholic Church Eritrean Catholic Church

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Ethiopia
Place of birth: Axum
Place of death: Semien Mountains
Occupation: priest
Image: Yared.jpg

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date of birth: 0505-04-25
date of death: 0571-05-20
feast day: Ethiopian calendar

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