ARMENIAN CYPRIOTS JOIN THOUSANDS, TO PILGRIMAGE TO ANTELIAS

Gibrahayer

Gibrahayer and combined services – June Armenian Cypriots were among
the thousands of pilgrims that flew to Lebanon to join thousands
of faithful who on Saturday flocked the Catholicosate of the Great
House of Cilicia, where His Holiness Catholicos Aram I officiated
the ceremony of blessing of Holy Muron, which takes place every
seven years.

On an altar placed in front of St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral,
Catholicos Aram I performed the Holy Water blessing ceremony,
which was attended by representatives from all Prelacies, as well as
representatives from the Holy See of Etchmiadzin and the patriarchates
of Bolis and Jerusalem.

Also present were representatives of other Christian denominations
and communities present in Lebanon.