Feast day: October 27
St. Frumentius
A young man shipwrecked and enslaved on the African coast who rose to influence at the royal court, won it to Christianity, and was consecrated the first bishop of Ethiopia.
A captured boy who became a king's secretary, he brought the Gospel to Ethiopia — which still calls him 'Abba Salama,' Father of Peace.
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