CHURCH AFTER ARMENIAN SAINT TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN TRANSNISTRIA
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May 10, 2012 | 19:11
It is planned to build a church in honor of great Armenian Enlightener
Gregory Illuminator in Grigoriopol, Transnistria.
Grigor Lusavorich (Gregory Illuminator) is the patron saint of
Grigoriopol, which was founded in 1792 by Armenian immigrants from
Ishmael. There are two versions of how the city was founded. According
to the first version, Prince Gregory Potemkin called the new Armenian
City ‘in honor of his angle’. According to the second version,
Potemkin ‘commanded to make a city from the village of St. Gregory
the Illuminator of all Armenians’.
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