ገድለ፡ ሳሙኤል፡ ዘደብረ፡ ሃሌሉያ፡ / Gadla Sāmuʾel za-Dabra Hālleluyā
· Anonymous (Gəʿəz hagiography; no author named in the Beta Masaheft record)
· Date not established; the Beta Masaheft person record (PRS8488) gives only the commemorat…
· hagiography
· KRZ 133; LIT1495GadlaS
no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
French only: G. Colin (ed. and tr.), Vie de Sāmuʾēl de Dabra Hāllēluyā, CSCO 519-520, Scriptores Aethiopici 93 (Louvain 1990); HOLLIS language 'fre;gez' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Samuel%20Dabra%20Halleluya&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English version found in any spelling of the name: 'Samuel of Waldebba English' and 'Gadla Samuel Dabra Halleluya English' return 0 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Samuel%20Dabra%20Halleluya%20English&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 None of this text appears among the hagiographical works Budge translated into English - the Ethiopic Synaxarium (The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church, 1928), the Gadla Ḥawāryāt (Contendings of the Apostles, 1899-1901), the Life and Miracles of Takla Hāymānot (1906), Mabaʾ Seyon and Gabra Krǝstos (1898), and the Miracles of Mary with the Life of Ḥannā (1900); all five are verified as English-language volumes in HOLLIS (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Book%20of%20the%20Saints%20Ethiopian%20Church%20Budge&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0
KRZ 133. The Beta Masaheft work record lists no witnesses. Do not confuse with two other Samuels: Sāmuʾel of Wāldǝbbā (LIT1497) and Sāmuʾel of Dabra Wagag (LIT1496).
Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Sāmuʾel of Dabra Hālleluyā”
(ethiopic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anon-gadla-samuel-dabra-halleluya