The city was built in the 70s BCE and was called Tigranocerta (Armenian – Tigranakert) in honor of the Armenian king Tigranes the Great. To inhabit the capital city, the king relocated into it part of the urban population that had been forcefully driven out by him from the countries he had conquered.
The Church’s tradition about the three-year-old Mary’s presentation to the Temple, and the establishment of the feast dedicated to this event. The extrabiblical sources for the story of St. Mary’s childhood and her parents. The pagan and Jewish traditions of presenting children to temples. Children’s education and spiritual edification in temples in the Jewish and Christian worlds. Re-evaluating the practice of presenting children to the Church in today’s reality.
- Speaker: Fr. Zakaria Ananyan
- Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan
The broadcast is dedicated to the Italian prose writer, dramatist, and poet Luigi Pirandello. He pictured the life and the rights of small people with a new quality of realistic prose. As a dramatist, he is an innovator. He created a new philosophical and psychological theater. His most famous work is the play "Six Characters in Search of an Author ." Here, the characters – the actors, the manager of the theater and the invented characters of unwritten plays – are real people. Pirandello uses a very interesting trick, uniting reality and theatrical play: the act develops right in front of the audience...
