Over Columbus Day weekend, more than 200 teenagers gathered at the St. Peter Armenian Church of Watervliet, NY, for the ACYOA Juniors annual Fall Sports Weekend.
In Memoriam: Charles Aznavour (1924-2018)
It is rare, indeed, to be able to state that an individual’s life had a genuine, beneficial impact on the entire world.
“Armenia!” Opens at Metropolitan Museum of Art, to Great Acclaim
Look in any direction and you’ll see richly illuminated manuscripts, opulent gilded reliquaries, rare textiles, exquisitely carved khatchkars, precious liturgical woodwork, rare printed books—and the artistic pièce de résistance: a sixteen-foot painted map showing the locations of the Armenian churches of historic Armenia before the Genocide.
A Solemn Feast Day, the True Cross, and a Blessing on the Entire World
Held up for display before the crowd of expectant onlookers was an eight-inch silver cross—one unlike any other.
Embedded within its central gemstone was a tiny sliver of wood: a holy relic of the True Cross of Jesus Christ—the cross Jesus carried to Golgotha, and on which he was crucified.
Relic of the True Cross to be on View at St. Vartan Cathedral
Worshippers visiting New York’s St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral on the evening of September 16 will have a rare opportunity to glimpse an actual relic of the True Cross of Jesus Christ.