Yesterday was Kulubi Gabriel. Kulubi is an important Ethiopian Christian Orthodox pilgrimage site in the Oromo region. The faithful make their pilgrimage in the name of Saint Gabriel.
I was baptized there at Kulubi.
My baptism it is an interesting story. My godmother had vowed to Saint Gabriel that she would have me christened there (of course, before I was even born). And she did so at my birth, taking a young baby and her parents to that far-off place, at least far from the Addis Ababa where we lived, and certainly a long car ride for an infant.