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First Tigrinya Book The first printing press in Eritrea was established in Emukulu (Massawa) in the year 1863 by the Catholic Mission. The Lazarist Missionary Lorenzo Biancceri published Catechism (teaching religious principles in the form of question and answer) in Amharic and the same book was translated into Tigrinya in 1867 by Abune Petros Lewis Bell. The first book in Tigrinya was a translation of the Four Gospels by Debtera Matewos written in 1830s but it was published in 1866 by Isenberg in Basle, Switzerland. The title of the book in Tigrinya was .