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spend about nine years in philosophical and theological study, at the canonical age of twenty-five, if sufficiently prepared, are ordained priests by their bishop-abbot, and are then employed by him in the various enterprises of the order. First, there is the work of the mission – not the conversion of the heathen, but priestly ministry to the
Armenian communities settled in most of the commercial centres of Europe. With this is joined, where needed and possible, the apostolate of union with Rome. Next there is the education of the Armenian youth and, associated with this, the preparation and publication of good and useful Armenian literature.
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moved to Vienna where it can be found until today, carrying
Armenian culture to the European continent. The major distinctions were that the Venice branch was focused on the preservation of the Armenian language and the translation of old Armenian books and manuscripts while preserving the Armenian language. The Venice branch of the order started translating the books and the manuscripts into different languages which allowed the popularization of the Armenian culture, they also started educational systems where the monks of the order would teach the Armenian heritage.
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world and had no idea of performing any works other than his choir duties, prayers, fastings, and the monastic observance. Under the Rule of Saint
Benedict, a monk would be expected to devote himself to some useful work and take some thought of his neighbour. This adoption of the rule was desired by Mekhitar and his monks, having a desire to devote themselves to apostolic work among their schismatic brethren, to instruct their ignorance, excite their devotion and bring them back into the communion with the
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keeper of it was out. We saw the neat galleries and little chambers of the fathers, with
Armenian letters over them. Our conductor showed us a man’s dictionary of Armenian and Latin – told us there were about forty frati and eighteen pupils, some few from Armenia, but mostly Constantinople. One has been in London and talks English. The youths learn Latin, all of them, and some Greek – also German and French some – and all Italian – English will now be taught.
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labours for their countrymen. We saw their press, where eight men are employed, when we saw them on an
Armenian Testament. They are now on a translation of Rollin. Their average is four books a year. They are all for the use of the Armenian nation, and all printed, as our guide said, in the literal (literary/classical) Armenian. They are shipped for Constantinople, and there sold.
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At one period, in connexion with their Vienna house, there existed an association for the propagation of
Catholic books, which is said to have distributed nearly a million volumes, and printed and published six new works each year. To him also they owe the guidance of their first steps in exegesis –
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Lazzaro he founded the printing press from which the most notable of their productions have been issued, and commenced there the collection of Armenian manuscripts for which their library has become famous. To any but members of the order the history of the Mekhitarists has been uneventful,
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One of the most significant moments in the history of the
Mekhitarist order established in Venice in 1717 was the schism of 1773, which not only had an impact on the structure and the future of the order but also on the Armenian church itself. The formation of the Armenian Catholic groups could be
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The monks work to promote both
Catholicism and Armenian patriotism. Their goals include the preservation of Armenian language and literature. Individually, the monks are distinguished by their linguistic accomplishments, and the Vienna establishment has attracted attention by the institution of a
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were introduced. The use of the Rule of Saint
Benedict represented the introduction of Western monasticism into the East, where up to this time a monk had no duty or vocation but to fill his place in the monastery and save his soul in the cloister, having broken off all relations with the outside
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After the division, a new branch of the Mekhitarist order was formed in Trieste which then belonged to the Habsburgs. When in 1805 Trieste was occupied by the French the Triestine Mekhitarists lost all their property because they were seen as Habsburg subjects. In 1837 the new branch of the order
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Missionaries, writers and educationists, devoted to the service of their Armenian brethren wherever they might be found, such are these Benedictines of the Eastern Church. Their subjects usually enter the convent at an early age, eight or nine years old, receive in it their elementary schooling,
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Byron and I then went in gondola to establishment of St Lazare. It was some time before we were let in – the brothers were at prayer, but when we walked into their church one of them bowed out and most courteously showed us about. Unfortunately the key to the library was not to be found – the
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Those who please of the pupils enter the order (they have revenues on the mainland). Zanetto said Napoleon despoiled them, but our conductor contradicted this, and said that he gave a decree from Paris saving this brotherhood from the fate of the other monasteries on account of their patriotic
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The dining-hall set out there looked like a Cambridge dining-hall – and the establishment is about 100 years old founded by one , whose picture is in the refectory. It did our hearts good to see the place. We are to return and see the library. They are all Catholics.
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Principally by means of the Mekhitarists' innumerable periodicals, pious manuals, Bibles, maps, engravings, dictionaries, histories, geographies and other contributions to educational and popular literature they have served Catholicism among the Armenian nation.
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The following are the most valuable of their contributions to the common cause of learning. Firstly the recovery, in ancient Armenian translations, of some lost works of the
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The order became very wealthy from gifts. The behaviour of the Abbot Stepanos Melkonian caused a group of monks to leave in disgust and elect their own abbot, first at
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and contributed several major portraits of Mekhitarist Monks and religious scenes. He is also known for documenting the Turkish Massacre from his own recollections.
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The schism reached a breaking point in 1773 when a group of Armenian monks under the direction of Ghevont Alishan, a follower of Mechitar, publicly seceded from the
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was given to them in 1717. This has remained the headquarters of the congregation to this date; Mekhitar died there in 1749, leaving his order firmly established.
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until the late 20th century they printed and circulated Armenian literature among the Armenians, thereby exercising a powerful educational influence;
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the branch of learning in which they have won most distinction – and the kindred studies of the liturgy and the religious history of their country.
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in 1695 to make his ecclesiastical studies there, but he was compelled by illness to abandon the journey and return to Armenia. In 1696 he was
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In 1810 all the other monastic institutions in Venice were abolished by Napoleon, but the Mekhitarists were exempted by name from the decree.
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Literary Academy, which confers honorary membership without regard to race or religion.
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seen as the product of the division inside this ethnic community.
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and the best known poets and historians of later days.
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Catholic organizations established in the 18th century
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a priest and for four years worked among his people.
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Order of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
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1822:Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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1968:Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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913:Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Mechitarists".
374:Ut ei se cum suis religiosis humillime subjiceret
2106:Religious organizations established in the 1710s
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1985:Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods
1872:Poor Clare Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament
1098:Address of Pope John Paul II to the Mechitarists
1833:Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
967:. In Berberian, Houri; Daryaee, Touraj (eds.).
1726:Daughters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception
27:Monastic order of the Armenian Catholic Church
2101:1712 establishments in the Republic of Venice
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1094:by Haroutiun Aukerian (1835) at Google Books.
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726:Letters (thirteen) of St. Ignatius of Antioch
528:, the legacy of a pious Armenian who died at
238:Benedictine Congregation of the Mechitarists
93:Benedictine Congregation of the Mechitarists
2126:Orders following the Rule of Saint Benedict
1948:Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
1849:Oblate Sisters of the Virgin Mary of Fatima
1465:Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word
1010:. Cambridge, Harvard College Library, 1976.
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385:hostilities between the Turks and Venetians
198:32 members (includes 24 priests) as of 2015
1553:Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus
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763:Quadro della storia letteraria di Armenia
80:Learn how and when to remove this message
2022:Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls
2010:Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart
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1911:Sisters of Christian Doctrine of Nancy
1878:Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
1828:Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart
1758:Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
1417:Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament
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1953:Sisters of the Immaculate Conception
1943:Sisters of the Holy Family-Louisiana
1778:Little Sisters Disciples of the Lamb
1773:Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary
1565:Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales
1505:Marians of the Immaculate Conception
1388:Canons Regular of Saint John Cantius
1272:Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo
1039:Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchenlexicon
919:. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
420:Byron's visit to San Lazzaro in 1816
246:Benedictina Congregatio Mechitarista
185:Isola di San Lazzaro, Venezia-Lido,
99:Benedictina Congregatio Mechitarista
29:
1731:Daughters of the Holy Heart of Mary
1017:(Venice, 1901); Saint-Lazare (1835)
571:of two years, monks take the usual
536:. Other houses were established in
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2005:The Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace
1630:Rogationists of the Heart of Jesus
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1105:http://www.mekhitariantoronto.org/
1071:http://www.mekhitariantoronto.org/
766:" by Sukias Somal (Venice, 1829).
49:it lacks sufficient corresponding
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2033:Servants of the Blessed Sacrament
1709:Carmelite Sisters of Saint Teresa
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1917:Sisters of the Cross and Passion
1896:Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament
1577:Missionaries of the Sacred Heart
1459:Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
1224:Congregation of Our Lady of Sion
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648:Literary and artistic activities
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2016:Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres
1753:Handmaids of the Heart of Jesus
1600:Oblates of St. Francis de Sales
1405:Congregatio Discipulorum Domini
1254:Institute of the Incarnate Word
961:Aslanian, Sebouh David (2018).
689:(one of their first labors) to
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1676:Adorers of the Blood of Christ
1653:Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer
1015:Vita del servo di Dio Mechitar
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700:Ariel Agemian illustrated the
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610:Their work has been fourfold:
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1768:Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters
1376:Brothers of Our Lady of Mercy
1141:Catholic religious institutes
1054:La Congregazione Mechitarista
318:in Armenia, then part of the
1927:Sisters of the Good Shepherd
1884:Religious of the Virgin Mary
1855:Order of Our Lady of Charity
1839:Oblate Sisters of Providence
1736:Faithful Companions of Jesus
1517:Society of Mary (Marianists)
1332:Coat of arms of Vatican City
1032:Orden u. Kongregationen
805:"Congregazione Mechitarista"
356:(Peloponnese), at that time
138:; 323 years ago
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1990:Sisters of the Sacred Heart
1844:Oblates of Jesus the Priest
1793:Living the Gospel Community
1050:Rivista storica benedettina
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626:originals no longer extant;
402:. They also established a
177:of Pontifical Right for men
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1788:Little Sisters of the Poor
1693:Basilian Chouerite Sisters
1647:Servants of Jesus and Mary
1594:Oblates of the Virgin Mary
1588:Oblates of Mary Immaculate
1559:Missionaries of La Salette
1529:Society of the Divine Word
1511:Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
1399:Christian Brothers (Irish)
723:. Among them may be noted
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2027:Sisters of Social Service
1938:Sisters of the Holy Cross
1688:Basilian Aleppian Sisters
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1523:Society of Mary (Marists)
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1041:(ed. 2) and Herzog,
459:Armenian Apostolic Church
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1995:Sisters of Saint Francis
1922:Sisters of the Destitute
1804:Marianites of Holy Cross
1799:Lovers of the Holy Cross
1721:Daughters of Divine Love
1571:Missionaries of the Poor
1500:Little Brothers of Jesus
1411:Immaculate Heart of Mary
1301:Society of the Atonement
790:
643:missionaries in Armenia.
587:, except for his beard.
510:San Lazzaro degli Armeni
463:Armenian Catholic Church
380:with Mekhitar as abbot.
322:, in 1676. He entered a
209:Armenian Catholic Church
98:
2000:Sisters of Saint Joseph
1783:Little Sisters of Jesus
1535:Society of Saint Edmund
1266:Missionaries of Charity
862:Encyclopædia Britannica
674:The Imitation of Christ
671:Mekhitar's versions of
64:more precise citations.
2075:Catholicism portal
1890:Servants of St. Joseph
1453:Discalced Augustinians
1435:Conventual Franciscans
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1170:Augustinian Recollects
1001:Sources and references
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740:Ecclesiastical History
596:Rule of Saint Benedict
585:Order of St. Augustine
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277:Rule of Saint Benedict
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1933:Sisters of Holy Cross
1636:Sacred Heart Brothers
1606:Order of Friars Minor
1494:Legionaries of Christ
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916:Catholic Encyclopedia
760:(1784–1786) and the "
683:Fathers of the Church
518:Mekhitarist Monastery
483:Mekhitarist Monastery
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329:Mekhitar set out for
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1447:De La Salle Brothers
1236:Discalced Carmelites
1006:Bardakjian, Kevork.
508:The main abbeys are
398:and then in 1810 at
1289:Servants of Charity
1182:Basilian Chouerites
383:On the outbreak of
312:Mekhitar of Sebaste
254:Mekhitar of Sebaste
222:.mekhitariantoronto
204:Parent organization
155:Mekhitar of Sebaste
94:
1901:Sisters of Charity
1482:Holy Ghost Fathers
1353:Albertine Brothers
1334:
1283:Premonstratensians
1176:Basilian Aleppians
1064:History of My Life
944:"Hobhouse's Diary"
931:History of my life
809:Catholic Hierarchy
495:
449:The Schism of 1773
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358:Venetian territory
308:
275:. They follow the
256:. Members use the
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2131:Mekhitarist Order
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1810:Maryknoll Sisters
1747:Filippini Sisters
1659:Xaverian Brothers
1318:Trinitarian Order
1060:Casanova, Giacomo
978:978-1-949743-01-2
785:Mikayel Chamchian
758:Mikayel Chamchian
731:Ephrem the Syrian
685:and the works of
654:literary language
592:Anthony the Great
501:, similar to the
429:John Cam Hobhouse
408:Venetian Republic
273:Armenian language
250:Armenian Catholic
236:, officially the
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