Gregory the Illuminator

thumb|Saint Gregory the Illuminator, 14th-century mosaic Gregory the Illuminator, outside Armenia often known as Gregory of Armenia or Gregory the Armenian (257 – c. 331) was the founder and first official head of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Quotes As I stood in that pit, I had the opportunity to reflect deeply on this issue, and on the folly of the Kings of Armenia; I thought, however short-sighted my mind: what does the greatness of the Kings consist of? Does he reside in the multitude of soldiers? Or in the magnificence of enormous earthly properties? Or perhaps in the extension of its own laws on various towns and cities? La Gloria dei Re. Salomone e la Regina di Saba, edited by Osvaldo Raineri, Editrice Fondazione Benedetta Riva, Roma, 2008. ISBN 978-88-903551-0-3, Ch. 2, p. 28 (in Italian). When Adam saw that Cain's face was gloomy and grumpy, and his appearance evil, he was deeply saddened. So Abel was born: and when Adam saw that his appearance was benevolent, what beautiful features his face had, he said: «This, he is my son. The heir of my kingdom». Kebra Nagast. La Bibbia segreta dei Rastafari, edited by Lorenzo Mazzoni, ShaKe Edizioni, 2013. ISBN 978-88-97109-32-7, Ch. 3, p. 28. Fratricide was first created by Satan's envy of Adam's children. Kebra Nagast. La Bibbia segreta dei Rastafari, edited by Lorenzo Mazzoni, ShaKe Edizioni, 2013. ISBN 978-88-97109-32-7, Ch. 4, p. 45 (in Italian). Cain, a cursed man, slayer of his brother, multiplied evil; and his seed did likewise, provoking the wrath of God with his wickedness. His lineage had no fear of God in its eyes, none of his children ever kept in mind that He had created them, none ever prayed to Him, nor worshiped Him, nor called upon His name, nor moved by fear ever served Him. No, his successors thought instead only of eating, drinking, dancing, playing string instruments, singing unworthy songs, and performing impure works devoid of any law, without measure or rule. So the perversion of Cain's sons multiplied, so that in their boundless indecency they introduced the donkey's seed into the mare, and thus the mule was begotten, which God had certainly not commanded. Kebra Nagast. La Bibbia segreta dei Rastafari, edited by Lorenzo Mazzoni, ShaKe Edizioni, 2013. ISBN 978-88-97109-32-7, Ch. 6, p. 46 (in Italian). Cain taught his descendants to do all that God hated: pride, vainglory in speech, self-flattery, slander, false accusation, and even the oath of inverting covenants. Kebra Nagast. La Bibbia segreta dei Rastafari, edited by Lorenzo Mazzoni, ShaKe Edizioni, 2013. ISBN 978-88-97109-32-7, Ch. 7, p. 46 (in Italian). I will reveal to you concerning the King of Byzantium, when he will transgress by provoking God to be angry with his fate. The same fate we have ordained and written, it will be a King who will transgress it, who will come to Byzantium and associated with him there will be a certain archbishop; they will change and pervert the word of the Twelve Apostles, and remove it from the desires of their hearts, as they will teach what they please and change the Scriptures to suit their very nature [...]. And when they have destroyed the faith, the conqueror of the enemies will be taken away from them, and there will be none of those who have changed their faith who can sit on the throne of Peter, and the entrails of their Archbishops will be emptied if they have sat there with a perverted faith. For the Angel of God has been ordered to protect the throne of Peter in Byzantium. Then God will take the conqueror of enemies away from the King who will not respect the faith and the Persians will wage war against him and defeat him and it seems to me that his name is Marsion the Apostate. So the King of Persia, whose name is Irenaeus, will defeat him and the King will take him away, together with his horse and by God's will the horse on which the conqueror of the enemies stands will be run amok and will go into the sea where she will die. But the nails will stand there in the sea shining until Christ comes in glory above a cloud of heaven, along with power. This is what God showed me in the pit. La Gloria dei Re. Salomone e la Regina di Saba, edited by Osvaldo Raineri, Editrice Fondazione Benedetta Riva, Roma, 2008. ISBN 978-88-903551-0-3, Ch. 113, pp. 146-147 (in Italian). Quotes aboout At the monastery of Khor Virap [...] Saint Gregory remained a prisoner 13 years before converting King Tiridater III, who would make Armenia the first Christian state in the world. Noubar Afeyan, quoted in Gian Antonio Stella, Nel nome di Aurora eroina degli armeni. L'altro «Nobel» a chi salva vite, Corriere della Sera, 16 October 2022. External links Category:3rd century births Category:4th century deaths Category:Armenian Apostolic bishops Category:Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church