In honor of the Armenian Church’s “Feast of St. Ghevont and His Companions” (Feb. 22, 2022), 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.
St. Vartan Cathedral marks the Eve of the Feast of Christ’s Presentation to the Temple.
Diocesan Primate Bishop Daniel will preside over the Feast of Sts. Vartanantz at New York’s St. Vartan Cathedral on Thursday, February 24, 2022.
He would become a figure of enduring spiritual stature in the Armenian Church. But he began his sojourn among our people as a stranger. This Saturday we will honor his memory once more—some 17 centuries after his death—during the Feast of St. Sarkis the Warrior.
