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Religion: Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates St. Sargis Day today

Panorama, Armenia
Feb 8 2020
Society 12:39 08/02/2020 Armenia

The Armenian Apostolic Church today observes the holiday of St. Sargis, the patron of the young and those in love.

St. Sarkis is one of the most beloved saints among the Armenian nation. St. Sargis was a Christian commander in the 4th century, who was killed along with his son Martiros by a Persian king for refusal to change his faith.

On the night of the holiday, young people eat salty pies and don’t drink water to encourage dreaming at night. They believe that St. Sargis decides their fate, that the person who gives them water to drink in their dreams will become their future spouse. People also put a plate with flour outside the door to have a record of St. Sargis’s horse riding through the flour. They believe St. Sargis appears with lightening speed on his radiant horse, and that the traces left in the flour serve as a good omen to bring them luck. In people’s imagination St. Sargis is handsome and appears with a spear, a gold helmet and gold armor.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS