Ethiopian Processional Cross 1 Women are responsible for transforming

Women are responsible for transforming raffia cloth into various forms of textiles

headdresses

as mould can settle

Made in France with SoyWax

Approx size - 21cm W x 17

Ethiopian Processional Cross 1 Women are responsible for transformingEthiopia was probably the second country after Armenia, to embrace the Christian faith, when St. Frumentius of Tyre converted King Ezana in the 4th Century. There is evidence that Christianity thrived in the country even in the 1st Century and for most of the country's history since, the state religion has been Orthodox Christianity. Rather than the familiar European Latin Cross the Ethiopian Cross has a distinctive 'African' appearance. These are