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🇦🇲✝️ Never forget the #Armenian Genocide. An elderly #Christian #Armenian grandfather bravely shared the heartbreaking story of how the people of Musa Dagh refused to die. When Armenian Christians across the Ottoman Empire were already being marched to their deaths in 1915, the people of just six Armenian villages beneath Musa Dagh received the same deportation orders and immediately understood what they meant. Those orders were not relocation. They were a death sentence written in the blood of their people. Deportation meant the long march into the Syrian desert, the slow starvation, the mass graves, the deliberate extinguishing of an entire Christian nation. Across the empire the same machinery was already at work. The Armenians of Kabusie, Yoghunoluk, Bitias, Vakef, Khederbeg and Haji-Habibli had already watched that fate devour their brothers and sisters. They would not walk quietly into the slaughter. So they gathered their children, their elderly, their last sacks of grain, their livestock, and the few hundred rifles they possessed, and they climbed the mountain of Moses. Four thousand human beings — mothers carrying infants, fathers with broken tools turned into weapons, young boys who had never held a gun — ascended into the heights knowing full well what waited below. Against them the Islamic-Ottoman state hurled thousands of regular troops and irregular killers. The mountain was surrounded. Assault after assault crashed against their thin lines. For fifty-three desperate days they held the ridges, driving back the waves of attackers while their food ran out and their ammunition dwindled to almost nothing. Every dawn brought the same question: Would this be the day the final bullet was fired and the final child was taken? They resisted. They fought. They refused to die on their knees. They lived in exposed camps of wood and cloth. About 600 men could fight, most with hunting guns and a handful of real rifles. They took weapons from the dead when they could. When ammunition and food failed, they lit bonfires on the seaward cliffs and raised two banners: a white cloth marked with a red cross, and another that read CHRISTIANS IN DISTRESS: RESCUE. Do you understand what that flag means? It is a people on the edge of extinction still calling themselves Christians in the face of men who had already decided they should not exist. On 6 September Vice-Admiral Louis Dartige du Fournet received the telegram and turned toward the mountain. The next day his flagship Jeanne d’Arc closed the shore. Reverend Tigran Andreasyan came on deck and told him the ships were needed now — for every soul still alive. Du Fournet refused to wait. In his log he wrote that time was short, and whatever Command would say, they all had to be taken off. On 10 September French ships fired on Ottoman positions to cover the rescue. On 12 September Guichen, Amiral Charner, Desaix, Foudre, and D’Estrées came in and launched their boats. Women, children, and the elderly went first, then the fighters. The operation lasted into 13 September. They were taken to Port Said. 4,058 people were saved, including 1,563 children. When word from Command finally came months later - "Where is Mount Moses?"- the survivors were already safe. If the admiral had waited for a clerk to find the mountain on a map, no one would have come down alive. They would not convert. They would not surrender. A French admiral refused to look away. The ships came.
Lianna132,968 просмотров • 6 дней назад
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🇬🇷✝️🇦🇲 Rare footage showing the Great Fire of Smyrna in 1922. Few people have ever heard about this incredible act of courage. In September 1922, while smoke rose from the burning city of Smyrna and #Greek and #Armenian #Christians were brutally killed on the quay, the brave crew of the Japanese cargo ship Tokei Maru chose humanity and saved hundreds of lives. On 9 September 1922, Turkish forces entered Smyrna. Massacre, rape, and deportation of Greek and Armenian civilians followed. Four days later, a fire broke out in the Armenian quarter and destroyed much of Smyrna. The scenes on the waterfront were horrible. There was the most awful scream one could ever imagine. Many did undoubtedly jump into the sea, from sheer panic. Mothers with their babies, the fire going on over their heads, and many of the bundles of clothes also on fire, and the people all screaming. About twenty Allied warships and cargo vessels sat at anchor. Among them was the Japanese freighter Tokei Maru. Anna Harlowe Birge, wife of Professor Birge of the International College at Smyrna, witnessed the helpless refugees crowding each other off the wharves as Smyrna began to burn. Men and women could be seen swimming in the harbor in the hope of rescue; many drowned. She wrote: "In the harbor, at that time, was a Japanese freighter, which had just arrived loaded to the decks with a very valuable cargo of silks, laces, and china representing many thousands of dollars. The Japanese captain, when he realized the situation, did not hesitate. The whole cargo went overboard into the dirty waters of the harbor, and the freighter was loaded with several hundred refugees, who were taken to Piraeus and landed in safety on Greek shores." During the same Smyrna catastrophe, she helped about forty Armenian students. She wrote her name after theirs and presented them as her sons. A Turkish military official, struck by the boldness of the act, allowed her and the boys to board a destroyer in the harbor. The Japanese ship was not left in peace. According to the Greek newspaper Empros, after the captain sent out the ship’s small boats, Kemalist soldiers surrounded them and threatened to sink them unless the refugees were given up. The captain refused. He is reported to have said that if they touched the people under his protection, he would treat it as an insult to the Japanese flag and a threat to Japan. The soldiers then consulted a superior and let the boats go. U.S. Consul George Horton, writing on 18 September 1922, confirmed the rescue itself: a Japanese ship took refugees; cargo was said to have been thrown overboard; and passengers praised the kindness of the Japanese officers and men. Contemporary Greek reports put one sailing about 825 people. Japanese records confirm that Tokei Maru was in the eastern Mediterranean in September 1922. The humanitarian actions of the Japanese ship were also recorded at the time by many Armenian and Greek survivors of the Smyrna catastrophe. Never forget Smyrna. For 3,000 years, Smyrna had been a vibrant Greek Christian jewel of Asia Minor. That September, families were trapped between the burning city and the sea. Behind them, their ancient quarters were turning to ash. Ahead of them was only water.
Lianna15,694 просмотров • 9 дней назад
✝️🇦🇲 Never forget the #Armenian Genocide that martyred 1.5 million blessed #Christians. Rare archival footage of Armenian children on death marches-endless suffering, stolen childhoods, lost generations. May the blessed #Christian martyrs rest in peace. #Armenia #History
Lianna187,638 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
✝️ 🇦🇲 The largest #Christian cathedral in #Iran🇮🇷 is a painted Bible. The #Armenian Vank Cathedral in Isfahan was built over 350 years ago. Every square centimeter was hand-painted by three ✝️🇦🇲 monks over decades. This true gem was built under the patronage of Archbishop David. Vank Cathedral ("Amnaperkich," meaning "Savior of All") was begun in 1655 and completed in 1664 AD. It's one of 13 surviving 17th-century churches in Isfahan's Julfa district. Over the following centuries, the complex expanded to include a bell-tower (1702), a printing press founded by Bishop Khachatoor, a library (1884), and a museum (1905). The interior paintings, inspired by both the Old and New Testaments, were executed by Armenian masters and three monks: Havans, Stepanus, and Minas. Every surface-the walls, arches, the collar and interior of the dome, and all corners of the Cathedral-is decorated with oil paintings. All around the walls of the Cathedral, there are many inscriptions which are written in the Armenian language that invite the readers to pray for the constructors of the Cathedral and their descendants. Most of the murals depict biblical themes, illustrating the story from the birth to the ascension of Jesus Christ.
Lianna169,129 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
The Armenian restaurant Taboon Wine Bar in Jerusalem was just attacked this evening by Israeli extremists. This follows several similar attacks and acts of aggression against the Armenian community in the Armenian quarter of Jerusalem. #Armenia #Armenian
Liana Margaryan549,593 просмотров • 3 лет назад
May Lord protect everyone and keep all innocent lives safe 🙏. ✝️68 AD. Hidden in the mountains of #Iran 🇮🇷. One of the oldest surviving 🇦🇲✝️ #Christian churches on Earth-built on the martyrdom site of an apostle. The #Armenian Monastery of Saint Thaddeus was founded in 68 AD according to sacred tradition on the very spot where Saint Thaddeus, one of the twelve apostles, was martyred and buried This makes it an apostolic-era sanctuary where Armenians have prayed since the 1st century, long before Armenia became the first Christian nation in 301 AD. Its walls have witnessed empires rise and fall. They all came and went, but the Armenian prayer never stopped. The current structure is a mosaic of centuries. The oldest surviving parts, around the altar apse, date from the 7th century, with some traditions linking earlier origins to the 4th century or the apostolic era. After an earthquake destroyed much of it in 1319, the monastery was extensively rebuilt in the 1320s under Bishop Zachariah. Further repairs occurred over the centuries, including in the 17th century. In the early 19th century, under the patronage of Father Superior Simeon, a large western extension (a narthex-like structure) was added, deliberately echoing the design of Etchmiadzin Cathedral, the mother church of the Armenian Apostolic Church. In 2008, UNESCO inscribed the Monastery of Saint Thaddeus (together with the Monastery of Saint Stepanos and the Chapel of Dzordzor, all in Iran's northwestern provinces) on its World Heritage List as the "Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran." This recognition highlights their outstanding universal value in Armenian architectural and decorative traditions, cultural diffusion, and pilgrimage heritage. Every year, thousands of pilgrims-Armenians and others-still journey to this remote mountain valley to kneel where an apostle is believed to have fallen. The annual three-day pilgrimage in July venerates Saint Thaddeus and Saint Sandukht (a royal convert martyred with him).
Lianna103,428 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
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Shit from Armenian 🇦🇲 ass #scat #poop #shitting #shit #poop #armenian #toilet #bathroom
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