Editing Sabbath in Christianity (section)

=== Oriental Orthodoxy ===
The Sabbath is considered holy in the [[Oriental Orthodoxy|Oriental Orthodox]] churches,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://suscopts.org/resources/literature/1137/the-sabbath-a-hallowed-and-holy-day/|title=The Sabbath: A Hallowed and Holy Day}}</ref> both Sunday (the "Christian Sabbath") and Saturday (the "Old Sabbath"). The [[Orthodox Tewahedo]] churches are known for celebrating the Sabbath, a practice defended in the [[Oriental Orthodoxy|Oriental Orthodox]] church in Ethiopia in the 1300s by [[Ewostatewos]] ({{lang|gez|ዮስጣቴዎስ}}, {{transl-grc|Ευστάθιος}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Marcus|first=Harold G.|title=A History of Ethiopia|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofethiopi00marc|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofethiopi00marc/page/24 24]|year=1994|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-08121-5}}</ref>) but deriving from the [[Apostolic Constitutions]] and the [[Canons of the Apostles]], an early Christian text invoking the authority of the [[Apostles]] and practiced in the [[Coptic Orthodox Church]] much earlier.<ref name="Tamrat 1972">{{cite book | last=Tamrat | first=Taddesse |author-link=Taddesse Tamrat | year=1972 | title=Church and State in Ethiopia, 1270-1527 | publication-place=Oxford  | publisher=Clarendon Press | isbn=978-0-19-821671-1 | oclc=653228}}</ref> In response to colonial pressure by missionaries of the [[Catholic Church]] in the 1500s, the emperor [[Gelawdewos|Saint Gelawdewos]] wrote his ''Confession'', an [[apologia]] of traditional beliefs and practices including observation of the Sabbath and a theological defense of the [[Miaphysitism]] of [[Oriental Orthodoxy]]. In it, he cites the Didascalia and distances the Christian observance of the seventh-day Sabbath from the Jewish observance, explicitly stating "we do not honour it as the Jews do... but we so honour it that we celebrate thereon the Eucharist and have love-feasts, even as our Fathers the Apostles have taught us in the Didascalia".<ref>{{cite book|last=Abir|first=Mordechai|title=Ethiopia and the Red Sea: The Rise and Decline of the Solomonic Dynasty and Muslim European Rivalry in the Region|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7fArBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA105|date=28 October 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-28090-0}}</ref>