April 20, 2001 - 20:32 AMT
CATHOLICOS OF ALL ARMENIANS WILL BEGIN PILGRIMAGE TO DER-ZOR DESERT ON APRIL 23
YEREVAN, April 20. /Mediamax/. The Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II will leave Yerevan on April 23 for Aleppo (Syria), where he will begin his pilgrimage to Der-Zor desert, the place where thousands of Armenians, deported from Turkey, were killed.
As Mediamax was informed in the press service of Holy Echmiadzin, representatives of clergy and socio-political circles will accompany the Catholicos.
On April 24, in the Armenian church of Der-Zor, Garegin II will serve with the Kilikian Catholicos Aram the First a mournful mass in the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
The head of the Armenian Apostolic Church will return to Holy Echmiadzin on April 25th. --0--