PanArmenian News
Jan 17 2005

MONUMENT TO GRIGOR ENLIGHTENER TO BE ERECTED IN VATICAN

17.01.2005 18:10

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 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.