2016-06-25 18:00:00

Vatican Weekend for June 25, 2016


(Vatican Radio) Vatican Weekend for June 25, 2016 features full coverage of the first two days of the Apostolic visit of Pope Francis to Armenia where he arrived on Friday to begin his 14th apostolic journey abroad. Armenia is a landlocked mountainous nation which borders with to the west Turkey, to the East Azerbaijan, to the north Georgia and to the South Iran. He was welcomed there by the President of the nation’s Republic Serzh Sargsyn and the Catholicos of All Armenia Karekin II.

Listen to a programme presented and produced by Veronica Scarisbrick: 

This visit of Pope Francis to the first country ever to adopt Christianity as a state religion sports a logo which highlights this historic factor along with the dates of the journey which are the 24th to the 26th of June. It’s a circular logo divided in half by two colours, yellow for the Vatican and purple for the Armenian city of Etchmiadzin,seat of the Armenian Apostolic Church where Pope Francis is staying as a guest of the Catholicos Karekin II.

Within the design one can spy the outlines of two significant places in Armenia, snow capped Mount Ararat with its biblical connotations and the Monastery of  Kor Virap located on its slopes. A monastery Pope Francis will also visit on Sunday and where Gregory the Illuminator credited for the conversion of this nation to Christianity in 301, so at the beginning of the fourth century, was once held prisoner at the bottom of a well.

 








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