October 14, 2015

His Holiness Aram I inaugurates the 36th Book Fair of the Catholicosate of Cilicia

11 October 2015. Following the Sunday Liturgy of the Feast of Holy Translators, His Holiness Aram I, the clergy and the faithful went in procession to the pavilion where the Catholicos inaugurated the fair. Each year, the exhibition brings together Armenian publishers, writers, teachers and students in Lebanon, in order to express their commitment to safeguard and contribute to the flourishing of the Armenian literature.

 

In his opening speech, His Holiness Aram I spoke of the night of 24 April 1915 when the Ottoman authorities rounded up poets, writers and key leaders of the community. He talked of the successors of the martyred generation who accompanied the disoriented and dispersed survivors and organized the Diaspora communities. After 100 years, he continued, a new generation of writers, poets and teachers have arisen to continue the legacy of the martyrs with the same dedication. The Catholicos then concluded, “Let us all contribute to the flourishing of our own culture by keeping it relevant to our contexts; let us continue to study our language and safeguard our specificity while we open up to our neighbours; and finally let us not forget to respect and celebrate our writers, poets and our teachers.

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