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Title: Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Gaidzakian, Ohan, 1837-1914. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, B. H. Aznive
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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laceof exile. On the way a storm wrecked the vessel on a desertisland, but he and the crew were saved. It was winter, andthey could find no food but the roots of trees, but in a shorttime the sea miraculously cast abundance of fish on shore, andfor eight months they never suffered for sustenance. Atthe end of that time the saint was set free. After the restoration of Bab to the land, though not theacknowledged throne of his father, Nierses, the Catholicos,convened an assembly of Armenian princes and ecclesiasticalheads, with the King, and show them all to mutual concordand good behavior, to unite the land against the Persians, butBab, like so many Eastern potentates and indeed his father,cared for nothing but to indulge his own passions, and wouldhave sold his country to Shahpur if he could have gotten hisprice. Nierses earnestly remonstrated with him, but in vain.Bab merely hated him for it, and finally had secretly poisonedhim (A. D., 383), in the village of Khakh in the province of
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ST. SAHAG CATHOLICOS. AND THE ARMENIANS. 117 Eghueghiatz. Nierses, the Catholicos, had been pontiff eightyears, but they were crowded with labors of immense varietyand usefuhiess. He left one son (Isaac), who eventually be-came pontiff also. MESROP. SAHAK (OR ISAAC) AND THE ARMENIAN BIBLE. The great work of the conversion of Armenia to theChristian faith, began by Gregory the Illuminator, had beenleft unfinished in at least one very important respect. Gregoryhad seen the desirability of rendering the church of Armeniaas soon as possible independent of foreign missionaries, andhad accordingly established schools for the education of thepeople, and for the training of indigenous clergy. But, asthere was no Armenian literature worthy of the name at thattime extant, and as no suitable alphabet capable of properlyrepresenting the sounds of the language had as yet been in-vented, he had not attempted to translate into the languageof the people the scriptures and the service books used indiv

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