Sparapet Sembat Bagratouni

Also called Confessor, he was father of Ashot I who restored the Armenian Kingdom in 885. After the uprising in Sassun in 851, the governors of Caliph in Armenia arrested many of the Armenian leaders and exiled them to Baghdad in attempt to make them abandon the Christian faith. Because of the particular authority of the Bagradouni princes in Armenia, Sembat the Sparabet was put to the particularly cruel tortures. However, he remained faithful to Christianity and was murdered in 855.

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