
Beautifully illustrated, the colours are still vivid and thanks to the Ethiopian Heritage Fund have been conserved.Abba Garima arrived from Constantinople in 494 AD and legend has it that he was able to copy the gospels in a day because God delayed the sun from setting.The incredible relic has been kept ever since in the Garima Monastery near Adwa in the north of the country, which is in the Tigray region at 7,000 feet.
