English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Vachagan III
Vachagan III the Pious
was the last king of
Caucasian Albania
from the
Arsacid Dynasty
. He was a brother of
Vache II
and was restored to throne by
Balash
. During his reign
Church of Caucasian Albania
was growing. Vachagan persecuted pagans and opened religious schools in country. He recovered
Grigoris
' and
Saint Pantaleon
's relics and buried then in a tomb within the
Amaras Monastery
with help of his extra-marital uncle Khochkorik. He named his son in honour of
Saint Pantaleon
.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License