/lit/ - Literature

>>15043585
Gregory the Illuminator. I am happy to introduce anyone to his cult. I pray in front of that icon every morning and evening that he helps my self and family and the Armenian nation. Read his story - he was imprisoned alone for 13 years in the pit of Khor Virap for a crime committed by his father. He never lost faith, and one day God struck the King Drtad with insanity. No pagan sorcerer, zoroastrian magi, or brahmin healer could save him (all three religions were established at the time) but a princess recieved a vision that Grigor, the assassin's son, was still alive inside the pit after twelve years, sustained by sympathetic people throwing bread down the hole to him. He was fished out, alive, to the astonishment of everybody. And then more astonishingly, he instantly forgave the king who had taken twelve years of his life, prayed to God, and the king was healed. Shortly after, he ordered that his entire court be baptized and the hindu and zoroastrian temples be destroyed, their priests chased out. Now the king is remembered as St Drtad, the first Christian king of any nation.