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San Lazzaro degli Armeni (Italian: [san ˈladdzaro deʎʎ arˈmɛːni], lit. "Saint Lazarus of the Armenians"; [5] sometimes called Saint Lazarus Island in English; Armenian: Սուրբ Ղազար, romanized: Surb Ghazar) [a] is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon which has been home to the monastery of the Mekhitarists, an Armenian Catholic congregation, since 1717.
Two original historical works may also be noted: "The History of Armenia", by Mikayel Chamchian (1784–1786) and the "Quadro della storia letteraria di Armenia" by Sukias Somal (Venice, 1829). [3] The monks work to promote both Catholicism and Armenian patriotism. Their goals include the preservation of Armenian language and literature.
Armenian Monastery of San Lazzaro, Venice, Italy Mkhitar Sebastatsi ( Armenian : Մխիթար Սեբաստացի ), anglicized : Mekhitar of Sebaste , Italian : Mechitar (17 February 1676 – 27 April 1749) was an Armenian Catholic monk, scholar and theologian who founded the Mekhitarist Order , which has been based on San Lazzaro island near ...
Portriet of Armenian merchant in Venice from 18th century. According to Gostan Zarian, the Armenians built 34 churches and monasteries in Italy, and eleven saints of Italy had Armenian origin. [20] Armenian prince Saint Minias (3rd century) is venerated as the first Christian martyr of Florence. The church of San Miniato al Monte is dedicated ...
The monastery collection has some 120,000 books in Armenian and 15,000 books in other languages on Armenian history, language, and other fields. [ 26 ] Writing in 1973 numismatist Paul Z. Bedoukian noted that the Mekhitarist Monastery of Vienna contains some 3,200 Armenian coins (including hundreds from Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia ), [ 28 ] the ...
At the beginning of the 18th century, an Armenian monastery was founded by Mkhitar Sebastatsi on San Lazzaro degli Armeni, an island not far from Venice. [100] Its congregation had and still has a rich library of a collection of manuscripts, a museum and a publishing house that make this place an island of Armenian culture on the territory of ...
The Hall of Mirrors ballroom (2009). In 1850 it became the home of the College of the Armenian monks of the Mekhitarist order.The Mekhitarists had already established a monastery on the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni in 1717, but there was no school for Armenian children, except for those preparing for the priesthood.
The first contacts between Armenian merchants and Venetians go back to the 6th century. [1] By the 12th century, the Armenian community was established in Venice. It became one of the Republic's wealthiest foreign communities. In the middle of 13th century Venetian nobleman and doge Marco Zianni built a hospice for the Armenian merchants.