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Armenian genocide

Wikipedia • The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress, it was ...

Bread & Salt: Alive in Heaven

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Armenian Church history was made in 2015 when the martyrs of the Armenian Genocide were ceremonially recognized as holy saints. The splendid service at Holy Etchmiadzin marked the first time in centuries that new saints were designated in the Armenian Church. With their canonization, the Genocide martyrs joined other great exemplars of holiness, virtue, and sacrifice, in the “canon” of revered saints from church history. In this video, Kathryn Ashbahian revisits the historic canonization service, and explains what has shifted in the way we now regard the Holy Martyrs of 1915. ...more
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Bread & Salt: Alive in Heaven
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2016Apr 21
Armenian Church history was made in 2015 when the martyrs of the Armenian Genocide were ceremonially recognized as holy saints. The splendid service at Holy Etchmiadzin marked the first time in centuries that new saints were designated in the Armenian Church. With their canonization, the Genocide martyrs joined other great exemplars of holiness, virtue, and sacrifice, in the “canon” of revered saints from church history. In this video, Kathryn Ashbahian revisits the historic canonization service, and explains what has shifted in the way we now regard the Holy Martyrs of 1915.

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EasternDiocese

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