The October commemoration of the Feast of the Holy Translators focuses on the creation of the Armenian alphabet (406) and on the accomplishments of the Holy Translators. Mesrob Mashdots, the founder of the alphabet, and Catholicos Sahag, together with some of their students…
The Armenian Church calendar lists the following saints under the title “Holy Translators”: The group of saints labeled as Holy Translators includes the familiar names of Sahag and Mesrob, but also the names of a 5th-century historian, a 6th-century grammarian, a 6th-century philosopher, a 10th-century poet, and a 12th-century theologian….
To Armenians in the United States, “Armenian Cultural Month” has been a feature of community life for as long as they can remember.
Two Armenian opera singers, tenor Yeghishe Manucharyan and mezzo-soprano Victoria Avetisyan, gave a concert at the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center. The event was sponsored by St. John Armenian Church, as part of its observation of Armenian Culture Month…
(Milwaukee, Wis.) Armenian Culture Month was observed on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2006, at St. John the Baptist Armenian Church. The celebrant for holy liturgy, Archbishop Yegishe Gizirian, the former Armenian primate of Great Britain, delivered a powerful homily on love and unselfish giving as the driving force of Armenian Christianity, and spoke at the luncheon afterward of the legacy of Armenia in the arts and spirituality. October, he reminded his listeners, has been proclaimed as Culture Month in the Armenian Church because the Feast of the Holy Translators falls on Oct. 14. Through the efforts of Saints Mesrob, Yeghishe, Moses the Poet, David the Philosopher, Gregory of Narek and Nersess the Graceful, important literary, historical, philosophical and theological texts were translated from Greek into Armenian, and meaningful new works were composed.
