Monastere de Gueghard

Bougies allumes pendant la priere par les croyants et les disciples de l'Eglise apostolique armenienne dans le monastere armenien Gueghard, le 29 juin 2014 ---- Candles have been lit for prayer by believers and followers of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Armenian Geghard Monastery on 29 June 2014. The unabridged name of the monastery, Geghardavank, means 'the Monastery of the Spear' referring to the Holy Lance which had wounded Jesus at the Crucifixion. Apostle Thaddeus is supposed to have brought the spear to Armenia. There exists a UNESCO partnership with Lorsch Abbey in Hesse, Germany. Armeina was the first country to make Christianity its state religion in 301