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Persoonlijke gegevens Gregor Lusavoritch Pahlav 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 239.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 332, hij was toen 93 jaar oud.

Gezin van Gregor Lusavoritch Pahlav

Kind(eren):

1. Vhartanes Pahlev  269-341 

Notities over Gregor Lusavoritch Pahlav

He was born in 239 in Vagarshapat [now Ejmiadzin], Armenia. He was the son of Anak Pahlav. A Feast
Day commemorates his birth. He was described in semilegendary 5th-century Armenian chronicles as
a Parthian prince who fled the Persian invasion and was educated as a Christian in the Greek
culture of Caesarea, Cappadocia (modern Kayseri, Turkey). A Feast Day commemorates his
sufferings. He returned to Armenia in the midst of a Christian persecution pressed by King
Tiridates III (who was a zealot for the regional idols) and was imprisoned in a burial pit. A
Feast Day commemorates his going into the pit. A Feast Day commemorates his coming out of the
pit. He converted the Armenians to Christianity (who thereby regard themselves as the "first
Christian Nation") in 300. Catholicos of Armenia, between 301 and 325. He died in 332 in T'ordan,
the Daranaghik' district, Armenia, at age 93 years. A Feast Day commemorates the deposit of his
relics at Thorton. Pope Gregory XVI, in September, 1837, admitted his namesake to the Roman
Calendar; and appointed 1 October as his feast (among the festa pro aliquibus loci

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