Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Life and Times (1660-1750) Of the Servant of God Abbot Mechitar: Founder of the Armeniam Mechitarists of Venice (San Lazzaro)
It is with feelings of the greatest pleasure that I present this Oriental work before the English speaking public.
For eight years now I have been conversing intimately with Orientals here in the centre of Christ endom, studying their character, attending and serv ing their sublime liturgies, reading their entrancing. History and witnessing with great regret that their religious position was misunderstood and that they themselves were scoffed at and their very name despised. I longed for the time when I could make them better known to Western Christendom, and was delighted when the original author of this work invited me to translate it into English.
The subject of this biography is a personage quite unknown to the English-speaking world - I might say, to the entire West, if we except the province of Venice, yet he was undoubtedly a land mark ih Ecclesiastical History. He was a saintly man, a person gifted with an uncommon Christian fortitude and heroism which God was pleased to confirm by many miracles, and one whom we hope soon to see crowned with the glory of the altar. His was a master mind capable of original thought and framed for taking the lead in enterprising works.
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