Tag Archive for: Cilicia

ARMENIANS AMONG THE VICTIMS OF THE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY AND SYRIA

20,000 fatalities reported so far from the massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit the region of Cilicia and northern Syria, with epicenter in the province of Gaziantep (Aintab), in southern Turkey, on early Monday, February 6. Following the devastating earthquake, His Holiness Catholicos Aram I has remained in constant contact with the spiritual and lay leadership of …

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BLESSING OF HOLY MURON AT HOLY SEE OF CILICIA 2022

His Holiness Catholicos Aram I blessed the Holy Muron before a crowd of thousands of faithful outside St. Gregory the Illuminator’s Cathedral at the Holy See in Antelias, Lebanon. A tradition that is repeated every seven years, this is the 13th time that the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia holds the ceremony at its current seat in exile, following the 1915 Genocide.

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