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    EXHIBITION DEDICATED TO 100TH DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF KHRIMIAN HAYRIL OPENS IN NATIONAL ARCHIVES

    Noyan Tapan
    Dec 21, 2007

    YEREVAN, DECEMBER 21, NOYAN TAPAN. The exhibition of documents opened
    in the National Archives of Armenia on December 20 was dedicated
    to the 100th death anniversary of Mkrtich Vanetsi Khrimian, that is
    Khrimian Hayrik, the Catholicos of All Armenians, the torch-bearer
    of the Armenian freedom, and the artist of idea and freedom. The
    exhibition mainly includes the manuscripts, letters, documents of
    the period, when Khrimian Hayrik was the Catholicos (1892-1907),
    as well as numerous wirtings and letters addressed to him.

    The scientists and clergymen gathered on the occasion of the 100th
    death anniversary of patriarch Khrimian in the National Archives once
    again appreciated the spiritual and public activities of Khrimian
    Hayrik during that difficult period for the Armenians.

    Archbishop Navasard Kchoyan, the eparchical vicar of the Ararat
    patriarchal diocese, expressed conviction that Catholicos Khrimian
    is contemporary today as well with the activities he conducted:
    "His thoughts and ideas can be used with the same rightness today
    as well. Khrimian Hayrik not only led the spiritual activities the
    right way, but was also after the public-political events of those
    times. With an insight decent for a skilful political scientist,
    he exposed the policy of the European states towards the Armenians
    in the congress held in Berlin in 1878," the eparchical vicar of the
    Ararat patriarchal diocese stressed.

    In the conviction of Ashot Melkonian, the Head of the Institute
    of History of the National Academy of Sciences, at the end of the
    19th century Khrimian Hayrik made a very important revelation for
    the Armenians with his skilful spiritual-political activities during
    that period of vital significance for the Armenian people: "A person
    should work on himself/herself in order to save himself/herself." The
    participation of Khrimian Hayrik in the 1878 Congress of Berlin became
    a turning point for the Armenians. The wise clergyman and political
    figure clearly saw that the Armenian people can exist only "due to
    its own power and thought," and that if it relies upon foreign states,
    it will be drawn to its end.
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