ARMENIAN CYPRIOTS TAKE PART IN CEREMONY OF BLESSING OF HOLY MURON IN
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NICOSIA, JUNE 13, ARMENIANS TODAY – NOYAN TAPAN.

Armenian Cypriots were among the thousands of pilgrims that flew to
Lebanon to join thousands of faithful, who on June 7 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 the
Holy See of Etchmiadzin and the patriarchates of Bolis and Jerusalem.
As the Gybrahayer reports, also present were representatives of other
Christian denominations and communities present in Lebanon.