DEATH OF FR. ALEXANDER MADIKIAN
Fr. Alexander Madikian was a distinguished member of the Mekhitarist Congregation of Vienna with remarkable contributions to Armenian Studies, yet whose life was cut short prematurely. He was born Taniel Madikian on 18, 1886, in the village of Krman in the Khodorchur region of Western Armenia. At the age of fifteen, he went to study at the Mekhitarist School of Smyrna (Izmir), and a year later he left for Vienna with four schoolmates to continue his studies. In 1906, he became a member of the Mekhitarist Congregation and took the name Alexander. After completing his studies, he was ordained a celibate priest in 1910.
