Street venders, religious illustrations

Inexpensive color lithographs of Christian topics can be purchased readily in Ethiopia. Christianity became the country's state-sponsored religion in 330CE, a half-century before Nicene Christianity became the state church of the Roman Empire with the Edict of Thessalonica in 380CE.

Welch, Claude Emerson

State University of New York at Buffalo

1973-12

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Ethiopian

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

Welch-Ludwig Collection

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