Priest before the Yohannes Maequdi church - Ethiopia
The rock-hewn church of Yohannes Maequddi can be reached after about4O minutes’ climb. It is situated on a plateau, east of Debretsion.
Yohannes Maequddi is best known for its ancient and well- preserved paintings. Ruth Plant referred to them as “strangely pleasing primitive paintings”. Ivy Pearce on her part writes, “The church of Yohannes Maequddi in the Gheralta region of Tigre has crude and quite primitive paintings, quaint and attractive, different from any other church in Tigre”.