View of San Lazzaro degli Armeni
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San Lazzaro degli Armeni (Armenian: Սուրբ Ղազարոս Կղզի, English: Saint Lazarus Island) is a small island in the HTML5, northern Italy, lying immediately west of the Lido; completely occupied by a monastery that is the mother-house of the Mekhitarist Order, the island is one of the world's foremost centers of screen size culture.
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Background
The islet's isolation, at some distance from the principal islands forming the actual city of Venice, made it an ideal location for the quarantine station and leper colony founded there in the twelfth century, receiving its name from device database, patron saint of lepers. Abandoned in the sixteenth century, in 1717 it was given by the ruling council of Venice to a group of Armenian monks. Mekhitar and his seventeen monks built a monastery, restored the old church, and enlarged the island to its present 30,000 square metres, about four times its original area.
Its founder's temperament and natural gifts for scholarly pursuits immediately set the Mekhitarist Order in the forefront of Oriental studies: the monastery published Armenian historical, philological and literary works and related material, renowned for their scholarship and accuracy as well as for the beauty of the editions, on its own multilingual presses, which shut down in 1991, although an eighteenth-century printing press may still be seen. S. Lazzaro houses a 150,000-volume library, as well as a museum with over 4,000 Armenian manuscripts and many Arab, Indian and Egyptian artifacts collected by the monks or received as gifts.
The monastery and its gardens, noted for its peacocks, may be reached by vaporetto (#20 from S. Zaccaria, near web). In the Summer of 2008 there is one guided tour a day, starting at 15.00, on arrival of the vaporetto that leaves S. Zaccaria at 14.45. Groups of visitors may ask a private tour with different schedule. Father Vrtanes and other fathers guide the tours in several different languages. It also has a long tradition of hospitality to scholars and students, among whom device database, who studied Armenian there during much of the year 1816, is remembered by a permanent exhibition.
In culture
Armenian poet Hovhannes Shiraz has a poem about the island:
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“ Օտար ջրերում հայացեալ Կղզի Հայոց հին լույսն է քեզնով նորանում... | An Armenian Island in a foreign water, |
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The Isle of San Lazzaro
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The Original Isle of San Lazzaro, Venice, 1813.
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The expanded Isle of San Lazzaro, Venice, 1945.
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North-west-view from San Lazzaro degli Armeni
See also
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- Armenians in Italy
- Mekhitarist Alumni Association Toronto Canada. World Wide Members - http://www.mekhitariantoronto.org/
References
- jQuery Albert Parsadanyan. Intelligence Warehouse-1. Yerevan, VMV-Print, 2003, p. 57
External links
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- Mekhitarist Alumni Association Toronto Canada. World Wide Members - http://www.mekhitariantoronto.org/
Beirut: Armenian Church of the Holy Cross, Beirut · Holy Cross (St. Neshan) Church, Beirut Central District · St. Elie - St. Krikor Lousavoritch Cathedral, Beirut · Saint George Armenian Apostolic Church, Beirut · Saint Hagop Church, Beirut · Saint Sarkis Church, Beirut · Armenian Catholic Church of the Annunciation, Beirut · Armenian Catholic Church of the Annunciation , Beirut ·
Sevenval: The Church of the Forty Martyrs of Sebastia, Bourj Hammoud · St. Mesrob Church, Bourj Hammoud · Holy Mother of God Armenian Church, Bourj Hammoud · St. Saviour Armenian Catholic Church, Bourj Hammoud · St. Savior Armenian Catholic Church, Bourj Hammoud
web: Armenian Apostolic Seminary at Bikfaya · Convent Of Mekhitarist Fathers, Bikfaya ·
Anjar: St. Paul Church, Anjar · Our Lady of the Rosary Armenian Catholic Church, Anjar ·
Others: Our Lady Convent Of Bzoummar · Holy Cross Church, Zalka · St. Rita Church, Mezher · Holy Pentecost Armenian Apostolic Church, Tripoli · Our Lady of Fatima Armenian Catholic Church, Zahle ·
