sentences:  In 1954, he went to Woliso, then called Ghion, where he began preaching to the local population.Abba Woldetensae's reputation as a healer and an exorciser of evil spirits through prayer and holy water spread, and pilgrims flocked to him from around Ethiopia and indeed from outside the country as well.He established the Bethesaida Kidist Mariam (St. Mary of Bethesda) Church and Monastery at Woliso.