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Gregory, the Illuminator, then healed King Tiridates, who the hagiographical sources say had been transfomed into a boar for his sins, and preached Christianity in Armenia. He was consecrated bishop of Armenia at Caesarea, baptized King Tiridates and the Armenian people, and traveled throughout Armenia, destroying pagan temples and building ...
Aristaces or Aristakes I (Armenian: Արիստակէս Ա, romanized: Aristakēs) was the second Catholicos of the Armenian Church from 325 until his death in 333. He was the younger son and successor of Gregory the Illuminator, the founder and first head of the Armenian Church and his wife, Julitta (or Mariam) of Armenia.
A relief of Agathangelos on the Armenian Cathedral of Moscow.. Agathangelos (in Old Armenian: Ագաթանգեղոս Agatʿangełos, in Greek Ἀγαθάγγελος "bearer of good news" or angel, c. 5th century AD [1]) is the pseudonym of the author of a life of the first apostle of Armenia, Gregory the Illuminator, who died about 332. [2]
After Gregory refused to sacrifice to the goddess Anahit, the king had Gregory imprisoned and subjected to many tortures. [12] Once Trdat discovered that Gregory was the son of his father's killer, he had Gregory thrown into a deep pit called Khor Virap near Artaxata , where he remained for thirteen (or fifteen) years.
Julitta of Armenia, also known as Mariam of Armenia, (in Armenian: Ժուլիտտա (Julitta) or Մարիամ (Mariam)) was a figure of early Christianity.While her name and identity are difficult to establish, she is recognized as the wife of Gregory the Illuminator and the founding mother of the Gregorid dynasty, being the mother of Aristaces I and Vrtanes I.
Saint Gregory the Illuminator became the first Catholicos of All Armenians following the nation's adoption of Christianity as its official religion in 301 AD. The seat of the Catholicos, and the spiritual and administrative headquarters of the Armenian Church, is the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin , located in the city of Vagharshapat .
He was the son of Julitta (or Mariam) of Armenia and Gregory the Illuminator. In 333, Vrtanes succeeded Aristaces as third in line in the then-hereditary Gregorid line of the Catholicos of the Armenian Catholic Church. Vrtanes was the first son born to St. Gregory I the Illuminator by his wife Miriam and his younger brother was St. Aristaces I.
First Sis era, 267-301: According to the order of Catholicoi, *St. Gregory I the Enlightener (also known as Gregory the Illuminator) was seated in Sis 267-301 before moving to Etchmiadzin in 301 where he continued in office until 325. In 485 AD, the Catholicosate was transferred to the new capital of Armenia Dvin.