Download or read book The History of the Holy Cross of Aparank written by St. Gregory of Narek and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short panegyric about the relationship of the High Byzantine Empire, under Basil II, and its relationship to its Armenian ally to the east. The text tells of the endowment of a piece of the True Cross to the Armenian monastery at Aparank, sometime during the early 11th century. St. Gregory makes references to several other powers within the Armenian church at the time, including the bishop of Mokk, Stephanos. It is stylistically broken down into 144 sections, which are translated here into English for the first time.
Download or read book Holy Cross A History of the Invention Preservation and Disappearance of the Wood Known as the True Cross written by William Cowper Prime and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Download or read book Holy cross a history of the invention preservation and disappearance of the wood known as the true cross written by William Cowper Prime and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Armenians in the Byzantine Empire written by Toby Bromige and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armenians in the Byzantine Empire is a new study exploring the relationship between the Armenians and Byzantines from the ninth through eleventh centuries. Utilising primary sources from multiple traditions, the evidence is clear that until the eleventh century Armenian migrants were able to fully assimilate into the Empire, in time recognized fully as Romaioi (Byzantine Romans). From the turn of the eleventh century however, migrating groups of Armenians seem to have resisted the previously successful process of assimilation, holding onto their ancestral and religious identity, and viewing the Byzantines with suspicion. This stagnation and ultimate failure to assimilate Armenian migrants into Byzantium has never been thoroughly investigated, despite its dire consequences in the late eleventh century when the Empire faced its most severe crisis since the rise of Islam, the arrival and settlement of the Turkic peoples in Anatolia.
Download or read book The Festal Works of St Gregory of Narek written by Saint Grigor (Narekatsʻi) and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Saint Gregory of Narek, a monk of the tenth century, knew how to express the sentiments of your people more than anyone. He gave voice to the cry, which became a prayer of a sinful and sorrowful humanity, oppressed by the anguish of its powerlessness, but illuminated by the splendor of God's love and open to the hope of his salvific intervention, which is capable of transforming all things." --Pope Francis, April 12, 2015 This is the first translation in any language of the surviving corpus of the festal works of St. Gregory of Narek, a tenth-century Armenian mystic theologian and poet par excellence (d. 1003). Composed as liturgical works for the various Dominical and related feasts, these poetic writings are literary masterpieces in both lyrical verse and narrative. Unlike Gregory's better-known penitential prayers, these show a jubilant author in a celebratory mood. In this volume Abraham Terian, an eminent scholar of medieval Armenian literature, provides the nonspecialist reader with an illuminating translation of St. Gregory of Narek's festal works. Introducing each composition with an explanatory note, Terian places the works under consideration in their author's thought-world and in their tenth-century landscape.
Download or read book From the Depths of the Heart written by Abraham Terian and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Catholic Media Association honorable mention in prayer: collections of prayers St. Gregory of Narek (ca. 945–1003), Armenian mystic poet and theologian, was named Doctor of the Church by Pope Francis on April 12, 2015. Not so well known in the West, the saint holds a distinctive place in the Armenian Church by virtue of his prayer book and hymnic odes—among other works. His writings are equally prized as literary masterpieces, with the prayer book as the magnum opus. With this meticulous translation of the prayers, St. Gregory of Narek enters another millennium of wonderment, now in a wider circle. The prayers resound from their author’s heart—albeit in a different language, rendered by a renowned translator of early Armenian texts and a theologian.
Download or read book Byzantinum in the Year 1000 written by Paul Magdalino and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One thousand years ago, the Byzantine Empire was reaching the height of its revival as a medieval state. The ten contributions to this volume by scholars from six European countries re-assess key aspects of the empire's politics and culture in the long reign of the emperor Basil II, whose name has come to symbolise the greatness of Byzantium in the age before the crusades. The first five chapters deal with international diplomacy, the emperor's power, and government in Asia Minor and the frontier provinces of the Balkans and southern Italy. The second half of the volume covers aspects of law, history-writing, poetry and hagiography, and concludes with a discussion of Byzantine attitudes to the Millennium.
Download or read book The Doctor of Mercy written by Michael Papazian and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Catholic Press Association second place award in theology--history of theology, church fathers and mothers In April 2015, Pope Francis named the Armenian poet and theologian St. Gregory of Narek (c. 945–1003) a Doctor of the Church. Though venerated for centuries by Catholic and Orthodox Armenians, Gregory is an obscure figure virtually unknown to the rest of the Church. Adding to the extraordinary nature of the pope’s declaration, Gregory has the distinction of being the only Catholic Doctor who lived his entire life outside the visible communion of the Catholic Church. The Doctor of Mercy aims to provide an accessible introduction to Gregory’s literary works, theology, and spirituality, as well as to make the case for the contemporary relevance of his writings to the problems that face the Church and the world today.
Download or read book Super Quibusdam written by Pope Clement VI and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Latin presence in the Holy Land in 12th and 13th century, contact was made between papal legates and the Armenian Apostolic Church in Cilicia (Armenia Minor). Among the various doctrinal exchanges that took place, and the brief lived union between Roman Catholics and Armenians, was this document, where common theological ground is specified by the reigning Roman Pope in Avignon. This theological common ground would be revisited during the Council of Florence in the 15th century, and again in the modern Armenian Catholic Church.
Download or read book Cum Dudum written by Pope Benedict XII and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late Crusader period the Roman Catholic Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church attempted to establish an ecclesiastical union, under the auspices of similar doctrines and as a means of political alliance with the Latin held crusader states.This attempt at union was short-lived and merited little in terms of ecumenical dialogue. In 1341, Pope Benedict XII issues this document, serving as a polemic against members of the Armenian Church which did not see eye-to-eye with Rome in terms of doctrine and ecclesiology.
Download or read book Genealogy of the Family of St Gregory written by St. Mesrop Mashtots and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 5th century work, likely composed by the Armenian saint, Mesrop Mashtots, illustrates the family dynamic and political conflict that surrounds both St. Gregory the Illuminator, and Nerses I the Great, both Catholicos of Armenia. The historicity of this text is obscured, as it appears to be a function of the 5th century, with larger later additions coming from the medieval period. It does offer some insight into the early Armenian church and the weave of familial ties that supported it in its earliest centuries.
Download or read book Refutations written by Eznik of Kolb and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refutations is the magnum opus of the Armenian bishop, Eznik of Kolb. In his work he lays out his argument regarding the nature and the presence of evil in the world, in contrast to the moral postulate of the Latin clergyman St. Augustine of Hippo. Eznik also refuses the Persian state religion, with a special emphasis on the issue of Zurvanism. This carries over as well on the argument levied against all dualistic thought, and against the Marcionist heresy in particular.
Download or read book The Life of Mashtots written by Koriun the Iberian and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Armenian saint, Mesrop Mashtots, is perhaps one of the most esteemed churchman in Armenian history. As an early church intellectual and inventor of the Armenian alphabet he continues to hold a place of certain distinction in the annals of Armenian history. This is his biography, as assembled and composed by his disciple Koriun, who would later go on to led the Georgian church as its Catholicos. This work of hagiography is perhaps one of the most important Armenian church documents to survive from great antiquity.
Download or read book Explanation on the Faith of the Armenian Church written by Nerses IV, Catholicos of Armenia and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 1166, the Eastern Roman Emperor Manuel I made a request of the head of the Armenian church to compose a short explanation to the history and constitution of their church structure, so that it might remain independent from the Imperial church in Asia Minor. The result of that request is this document, composed by the the contemporary Catholicos of All Armenian, Nerses IV, who explained the unique features of Armenian liturgy and ecclesiology, and how it differed from the more familiar Greek and Latin traditions.
Download or read book Letter to Kiwron Catholicos of Iberia written by Movses II Yeghivardetsi, Catholicos of Armenia and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are two letters of correspondence between the two Caucasian Sees in Georgia and Armenia regarding the presence of a Nestorian priest in their midst. There are some allusions drawn to issues of Christological doctrine, particularly that of the Council of Chalcedon and with imperial pressure to accept its canons coming from the Eastern Roman Empire.
Download or read book The Geography written by Ananias of Shirak and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Armenian text of Geography according to Ptolemy, which has recently been attributed to the churchman, Ananias of Shirak, is a sentinel work from Armenian antiquity. It remains out primary authority on both the Armenian geo-political worldview, and also the historical geography of the middle-east in general. The Greek sources which Ananias is claiming to draw from, Pappus of Alexandria, and Ptolemy himself, are clearly augmented from his own, now lost, native Armenian sources. He also appear to have Persian sources readily available to him, from the libraries of the Sassanian Empire.
Download or read book Council of Shahapivan 444 AD written by St. Hovsep, Catholicos of Armenia and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Council of Shahapivan is the first surviving council of the Armenian Church, and has survived in various ecclesiastical sources. Convened in the year 444, after three consecutive councils in the city of Ashtishat, the Armenian clergy under Catholicos Hovsep I met in the township of Shahapivan (province of Ayrarat). Among those present was the governor, Vasak Siuni, and General Commander of the Army, Vartan Mamikonian. The purpose of the council was audit the functions of the clergy, and prohibit activities endangering the authority and integrity of the newly-established church.
