Saga Amlak, who took the monastic name Abba Saga, is remembered in Beta Israel tradition as a prince of the Christian royal house, commonly named a son of Emperor Zara Yaqob, who was converted through his teacher Abba Sabra and cast in his lot with the Beta Israel. Renouncing his inheritance, he joined Abba Sabra in establishing the community's monastic order and, in some accounts, a separate polity in the highlands where the Beta Israel could live and worship unmolested. Like Abba Sabra, he belongs to the shared memory of the community's fifteenth-century religious consolidation, and history and legend are closely interwoven in the accounts of him.