Armenian Apostolic Holy Church The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

At the consecration ceremony, the clergy brought out the cross with the relic of the Tree of Life, the Holy Lance of Geghard, the right hand of St. Gregory the Illuminator, and the shrine of the martyrs of the Genocide. This year, the right hands of St. Ananias the apostle and Luke the Evangelist, the relic of St. Sahak Parthev were also brought out. After the blessing of the muron, the Catholicos of All Armenians addressed his fatherly message to his people who suffered the horrors and losses of the war and wished that the new myron would bring spiritual strength and the power of recovery.