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Father Ghevont Alishan
Mekhitarian
Congregation
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Father Ghevont Alishan (1820-1901; also spelled Ghevond Alishan) was an ordained
Armenian Catholic
Armenian Catholic Church
The Armenian Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church sui juris in full
union with the Roman Catholic Church. It is in full communion with and accepts
the authority of the Pope in Rome as regulated by Eastern canon law...
He was a member of the Mkhitarist Congregation priest, historian and a poet. He
was awarded by the Legion of Honour of the French Academy (1866), an honorary
member of the Asian Society of Italia, Archeological Society of Moscow, Venice
Academy and Archeological Society of Saint-Petersburg.
Mechitarists
The Mechitarists , are a congregation of Benedictine monks of the Armenian
Catholic Church founded in 1712 by Mechitar of Sebastia. They are best known for
their series of scholarly publications of ancient Armenian versions of otherwise
lost ancient Greek texts.- History: Their eponymous founder,...in Venice
In 1885, Armenian Students Association of Paris appealed to him to create the
first modern Armenian flag.
Flag of Armenia
The national flag of Armenia, the Armenian Tricolour , consists of three
horizontal bands of equal width, red on the top, blue in the middle, and orange
on the bottom. The Armenian Supreme Soviet adopted the current flag on August
24, 1990.
His first design was a horizontal tricolor, but with a set of colors different
than those used on the Armenian flag of today. The top band would be red to
symbolize the first Sunday of Easter (called "Red" Sunday), the green to
represent the "Green" Sunday of Easter, and finally an arbitrary color, white,
was chosen to complete the combination. While in France, Alishan also designed a
second flag inspired by the national Flag of France
Identified today as the "Nationalist Armenian Flag." Its colors were red, green,
and blue respectively, representing the band of colors that Noah saw after
landing on Mount Ararat
Noah
Noah was, according to the Bible, the tenth and last of the antediluvian
Patriarchs; and a prophet.
Mount Ararat
Mount Ararat is a snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone in Turkey...
Armenian Flag
The Evolution of the Armenian Flag
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