When Yared was seven years old his father died, and his mother sent him to go live with an uncle, who was a priest of the Ethiopian Orthodox tradition, one of the oldest churches in the world.
雅尔德的父亲在他七岁时去世了， 然后他的母亲将他送去舅舅家生活， 舅舅是一位埃塞俄比亚东正教的牧师， 这是世界上最古老的教派之一。