Description: Armenie_12 1838 print ST. GREGORY THE ILLUMINATOR AND HIS SON ARISTACES, ARMENIA (#12) Print from steel engraving titled St. Gregoire l'Illuminateur - Arisdages son fils, published in a volume of L'Univers Pittoresque, Paris, approx. page size 21 x 12.5 cm, approx. image size 14.5 x 9 cm, nice hand coloring. Saint Gregory the Illuminator born 240, Vagarshapat [now Ejmiadzin], Armenia, died 332, Armenia; feast day September 30, according to tradition, the 4th-century apostle of Christianity in Armenia. Semilegendary 5th-century Armenian chronicles describe Gregory as a Parthian prince who fled the Persian invasion and was educated as a Christian in the Greek culture of Caesarea, Cappadocia (modern Kayseri, Turkey). He returned to Armenia in the midst of a Christian persecution pressed by King Tiridates III (who was a zealot for the regional idols) and was imprisoned in a burial pit. After being rescued, Gregory reputedly converted the king about 300, and Tiridates then became the first monarch in history to impose Christianity on his people. He did so about 20 years before Constantine I. Neighbouring Cappadocian bishops then installed Gregory as patriarchal bishop of Armenia. He subsequently evangelized parts of the country remaining under Roman control and influenced Christianity in Albania and other regions of the Caucasus mountains. Gregory initiated an original Armenian ecclesiastical dynasty, wherein the office of metropolitan, or senior bishop, remained in his family down to the 5th century. He consecrated as bishops his two sons, Vhartanes and Aristakes. Having organized the Armenian church along lines of Greek and Syriac biblical texts and liturgical practices, he passed his last years in contemplative solitude, dying in a mountain cave. A number of letters, rules of church discipline (canons), liturgical prayers, and sermons ascribed to Gregory are not completely genuine, since they contain theological terminology of a later period.
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Subject: History
Print Type: Engraving
Date of Creation: 1800-1899
Year of Production: 1838
Style: Realism
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