In honor of the Armenian Church’s “Feast of St. Vartan the Warrior and His Companions” (Feb. 16, 2023), read the oration Vartan delivered before his 66,000-man army, on the eve of the Battle of Avarayr in A.D 451—retold in English for a modern readership.
With the Feast of St. Vartan being celebrated this week (on February 16), the Eastern Diocese has dusted off a video treasure from its archives: a vintage TV retelling of the dramatic story of Vartan and the Battle of Avarayr.
Diocesan Primate Fr. Mesrop Parsamyan will preside over the Feast of Sts. Vartanantz at New York’s St. Vartan Cathedral on Thursday, February 16, 2023.
In honor of the Armenian Church’s “Feast of St. Ghevont and His Companions” (Feb. 13, 2023), read the oration Ghevont delivered before Vartan and his 66,000-man army, on the eve of the Battle of Avarayr in A.D 451—retold in English for a modern readership.
The story of a resurrected deer may be our earliest account of the evangelization of the Armenians. The Armenian Church remembers that story with an annual feast day.
