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WRITINGS OF BISHOP MESROP PARSAMYAN
You are to God the fragrance of Victory
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THE FRAGRANCE OF VICTORY

In ancient Rome, when a victorious commander returned from battle, the whole city would gather for a grand celebration called a “Triumph.” This wasn’t just any parade. It was a spectacle of victory. The streets were lined with cheering crowds, soldiers marched in their shining armor, and most importantly, incense was burned everywhere. The fragrance of that incense filled the city, proclaiming to everyone that victory had been won.

St. Paul uses this imagery to describe what it means to live in victory through Christ. He writes, “Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life” (2 Corinthians 2:14-16).

This Week in Armenian History
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DEATH OF NIKOGHOS TAHMIZIAN

Nikoghos Tahmizian was the foremost name of Armenian musicology in the second half of the twentieth century.

He was born in Athens (Greece) on May 9, 1926. He received elementary education at the local Armenian school, followed by high school at the Melkonian Educational Institute in Cyrpus on a merit-based scholarship. After graduation in 1945, he received a fully funded fellowship for a seven-year academic course at the Music Conservatory of Brussels, Belgium.

The repatriation movement of 1946-1948 changed his plans. He moved to Soviet Armenia and in September 1946 he was admitted to the Romanos Melikian Musical College of Yerevan, graduating in 1950. He was third French horn in the orchestra of the Yerevan Opera House (1947-1956).

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