Commemoration Day of St. Thaddeus and St. Bartholomew

02.12.2013

Apostles St. Thaddeus and St. Bartholomew were two of the twelve Apostles of Christ, who came to Armenia and preached Christianity in Armenia deserving the title "the first illuminators". It was the result of their preaching and martyrdom that the Armenian people, being the first nation in the world, proclaimed Christianity as the state religion Each year a Divine Liturgy is celebrated in the Cathedral of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin in the memory of St. Apostles. On this occasion, on November 30, Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin: The celebrany was Very Rev. Father Kuregh Davtyan.