Candace
A Candace was a queen at the Koushites, as Pharaon meant king among Egyptians. Indeed, it is about a title which probably results from meroitic “the mother of the king kdke ”.
There were several queens in Nubie. The Acts of the Apostles, YOU, 27-39, mention one of them, whose minister was converted and baptized by Saint Philippe. According to Pline old the, it reports that a woman called " Candace" reigning in the island of Méroé of the ground of Ethiopian sent its officer at Saint Philippe in Samarie. This one returned to Ethiopia with the testimony of the knowledge of God of the universe.
But most known remains the Candace Amanishakhéto, queen of the Sudanese kingdom of Napata and Méroé at the time of Auguste, which refuses to be subjected and badgers the Roman legions. In year -20, it makes an incursion in Egypt, by plundering all the cities on its passage until Éléphantine. Stopped by the Roman troops, she asks peace and returns in her kingdom which, thanks to the treaty concluded by Amanishakhéto with the Auguste emperor, prosperous lasting even more than two hundred years.
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