Armenian Saints

From the BBC:
"Armenian Church canonises '1.5m genocide victims'"

The Armenian Church has held a ceremony near Yerevan to canonise 1.5 million Armenians it says were killed in massacres and deportations by Ottoman Turks during World War One.  The church says the aim of the ceremony was to proclaim the martyrdom of those killed for their faith and homeland.   On Friday commemorations will mark the 100th anniversary of the killings.  After the ceremony, bells tolled in Armenian churches around the world.  The beatification at the Echmiadzin Cathedral did not give the specific number of victims or their names.  It is the first time in 400 years that the Armenian Church has used the rite of canonisation.

 

^ I've been to a few Armenian Churches (in Russia and the US) and even though I couldn't always understand what they said  - most of it was in Armenian - you could still feel that it was a close-knit group of people. It's nice that the Church remembers those murdered during the genocide. I found a website in several languages that has a lot about the 100th anniversary of the Genocide at the following link:    http://armeniangenocide100.org/en/    ^

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32437633