"I Confess With Faith" Saint Nerses Shnorhali – the Gracious (1102 – 1173) "ՀԱՎԱՏՈՎ ԽՈՍՏՈՎԱՆԻՄ" Ս. ՆԵՐՍԵՍԻ ՇՆՈՐՀԱԼԻՈՅ

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Treasures of the Armenian Church

the heritage and the treasures of the Armenian Apostolic Church

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A relic from the Noah’s Ark (the ornated cross lies over the relic),  Kanaker 1698, Echmiadzin treasury

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A relic from the Noah’s Ark (closer image), Echmiadzin treasury

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The reliquary (shown also above) with its gates shut. Trandition says that once St. Jacob of Nisibis started climbing Mt. Ararat in the quest of Noah’s Ark, an angel halted him by presenting him with a fragment from the Ark itself.

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A fragment of the Holy True Cross of Jesus Christ (relic lies inside the gem at the centre of the cross), Echmiadzin treasury

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A fragment of the Holy True Cross of Jesus Christ (detailed image), Echmiadzin treasury

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Relic of the Holy True Cross of Jesus Christ (embedded inside the liturgical cross), Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem

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Holy Lance (Սուրբ Գեղարդ: Sourp Geghard), the spear that pierced our Lord Jesus Christ, 1687, Echmiadzin treasury

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Holy Lance (Սուրբ Գեղարդ: Sourp Geghard), closer image, Echmiadzin treasury

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Reliquary Cross containing relics of St. John the Baptist, Adana 1665, Echmiadzin treasury

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Reliquary containing relics of St. John the Baptist, 1783, Echmiadzin treasury

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Cross with relics, 18th century, Echmiadzin treasury

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Cross with relics, Vaspourakan, lake Van, 1746, Echmiadzin treasury

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Sacred reliquary box, 18th century, Echmiadzin treasury

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Sacred reliquary box, 19th century, Echmiadzin treasury

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Relic of St. Thaddeus the Apostle, kept in hand shaped reliquary, 17th century, Echmiadzin Cathedral

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Relic of St. Gregory the Illuminator – Ս. Գրիգոր Լուսաւորիչ (c.257-331), 1657, Echmiadzin Cathedral

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Relic of St. Gregory the Illuminator – Ս. Գրիգոր Լուսաւորիչ (c.257-331), Holy See of Cilicia

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Hand shaped reliquary, from the Catholicosate of Cilicia

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Echmiadzin Gospels, 10th century. Carved ivory cover of Byznantine origin, Madenataran collection

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Gospel of 1475, by Aristakes, Lake Van. Silver cover of 17th century from Kayseri, W.540 Walters collection

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Reliquary icon from the Catholicosate of Cilicia, 12th century, Hermitage museum~

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1262 Gospel illuminated by Toros Roslin, Walters Collection

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The letters of the Armenian alphabet (engraved in gold), by B. Arzoumanian and J. Chouloyan, 1976, Echmiadzin treasury

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Holy Chrismarium for the preparation of the Holy Myron of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Aghtamar 1883, Echmiadzin treasury

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Holy Chrismarium, for the preparation of the Holy Myron of the Armenian Apostolic Church, at the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin

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Holy Chrismarium, for the preparation of the Holy Myron of the Armenian Apostolic Church, at the  Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia

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Eucharistic Urn containing the Holy Myron, 1815, Echmiadzin treasury

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Eucharistic Dove containing the holy anointing oil, Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia

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Eucharistic Dove containing the holy anointing oil, Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople

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Eucharistic Dove containing the holy anointing oil, 1797, Echmiadzin Cathedral

 

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