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| | Leo Alishan - Poems |
 | | LEO ALISHAN, born at Erzerum, in the heart of Armenia, early in the last century, was a Roman Catholic Armenian, a monk of the Mechitarist Convent at Venice, and a distinguished antiquarian, scientist, linguist, and historian, as well as a poet. |
 | | THIS is an extract from a long poem in the classical Armenian, describing the conversion to Christianity by the Apostle Thaddeus, in the first century A. D., of Santoukhd, the daughter of the Armenian King Sanadroog. |
 | | According to Armenian tradition, Santoukhd was the earliest Christian martyr among women. |
| armenianhouse.org /blackwell/armenian-poems/alishan.html (1305 words) |
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