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From Victims to Victors: The Holy Martyrs of the Armenian Genocide

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January 12, 2022
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The Altar Image of the Armenians on the Tomb of Mary

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August 3, 2021
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The first image is the zoomed into the altar image. Go to the second image to see the context of the image. Reflection Questions What stands out to you while looking at these two images? How is this altar different …

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Relics and Reliquaries of the Armenian Apostolic Church

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June 23, 2020
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On Saturday the Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates one of the three feasts related to St. Gregory the Enlightener, who converted King Drtad and hence Armenia to Christianity and who was the first Catholicos of all Armenians. This particular feast commemorates …

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Lessons in Social Justice from St. Nersess the Great

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June 16, 2020
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Catholicos Nersess I, known as St. Nersess the Great, lived in the fourth century and was Catholicos from 353-373. He clearly would not have used the language of “social justice,” today a phrase meant to invoke wide-ranging demands for a …

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The Women at the Source of Armenian Christianity

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June 8, 2020
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St. Hripsime (Հռիփսիմէ), in her struggle with King Drtad (Տրդատ, also spelled Trdat) before his conversion to Christianity, was “strengthened by the Holy Spirit” and “struggled like a beast.” Drtad was known for his martial prowess and strength: the historian …

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The Armenian Church in the First Republic: Catholicos Kevork V

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May 26, 2020
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This Thursday, May 28, marks the 102nd anniversary of the First Republic of Armenia. After a series of military victories known as the Heroic Battles of May, the most famous of which is the Battle of Sardarabad which we discussed …

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Catholicos Karekin Hovsepian and the Battle of Sardarabad

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May 19, 2020
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Զանգեր ղողանջեք,                                          Bells, Ring out! Սրբազան քաջերին կանչեք.                  Call the Pure and …

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Michael Arlen and Armenian Diasporic Literature

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May 12, 2020
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Early in Michael J. Arlen’s revered memoir Passage to Ararat, the author makes a visit to the St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral in New York City. “Out of the blue,” he tells us, “I was asked by an Armenian group in …

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Ghevont Alishan and Mkhitarist Scholarship

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May 5, 2020
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By the beginning of the nineteenth century, there was a significant Armenian Catholic population in the Ottoman Empire and beyond. While the Armenian Apostolic Church had intermittent contact with the Roman Catholic Church since at least the period of the …

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Khrimian Hayrig and the Pre-Genocide Armenian Church

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April 28, 2020
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Few figures loom larger in the ecclesial history of the nineteenth century Armenian Church than the man known affectionately as Khrimian Hayrig. Hayrig, a diminutive form of the Armenian word for father, captures the love and respect nearly universally felt …

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