Mkhitar Sebastatsi

(1676-1749) (Manuk Petrossian) Abbot Mkhitar, prominent Armenian scholar and theologian. He converted to the Roman Catholicism. In 1717, Abbot Mkhtar founded the renowned Congregation of scholar monks in Venice, on St. Lazarus Island. The monastery of Mkhitar developed a worldwide famous academy. Afterwards, Byron and Stendhal took here courses of the Armenian language.

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