MONUMENT TO GRIGOR ENLIGHTENER TO BE ERECTED IN VATICAN

January 17, 2005 - 22:10 AMT
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The opening ceremony of the monument to Grigor Lusavorich (Enlightener) is to take place at the wall of St. Peter Cathedral in Vatican on January 19. Pope Joann Pavel II will participate in the ceremony. On the occasion of the 1700-th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity as a state religion in Armenia Patriarch of Catholic Armenians Nerses Petros XIX appealed to Pope with a request to erect the monument. The marble sculpture with a height of 5.7 meters has already been placed. The author of the monument is French sculptor of Armenian origin Khachik Ghazanchian.
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