MANIFESTĂRI SOLEMNE PE INSULA „SAN LAZZARO DEGLI ARMENI”, CU OCAZIA ÎMPLINIRII A 300 DE ANI DE LA INTRAREA ÎN POSESIE A INSULEI DE CĂTRE ABATELE MECHITAR ȘI A UCENICILOR LUI
SOLEMN CELEBRATIONS ON THE ISLAND OF SAN LAZZARO DEGLI ARMENI, MARKING THE 300TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ISLAND'S ACQUISITION BY ABBOT MECHITAR AND HIS DISCIPLES

Author(s): Giuseppe Munarini
Subject(s): Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Review, General Reference Works, Scientific Life
Published by: Editura Cetatea de Scaun
Keywords: Abbot Mekhitar of Sebaste; San Lazzaro; Armenian monastic tradition; Benedictine tradition; Diaspora;
Summary/Abstract: Three hundred years have passed since Abbot Mekhitar of Sebaste (1676–1749), who arrived in Venice in 1715, received the island of San Lazzaro from the Senate of the Serenissima Republic, an island that had previously belonged to the Order of the Mendicants. Immediately afterward, restoration work on the church and the expansion of the island—then in an advanced state of decay—began. This is not the moment or place to recount all the positive achievements accomplished by this servant of God and his disciples for Armenia, the Diaspora, Venice, and the Catholic Church. Despite the difficulties faced by the priest from Sivas, which forced him to flee Modon, the land of the Peloponnese or Morea, which had fallen into the hands of the Turks who had taken it from the Venetian Republic, he received from Providence—in which he firmly believed—the zeal and courage to create a congregation that continues to this day, preserving on the one hand the Benedictine tradition, and on the other the finest monastic traditions of the Armenian and, more broadly, Eastern Christian world.

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