John the Baptist Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Historic Armenia==== [[File:Surp Garabed Vank (Hampikian, 1923).jpg|thumb|[[Saint Karapet Monastery]], where Armenian tradition holds that his remains were laid to rest by Gregory the Illuminator<ref name="Kharatyan">{{cite book|last1=Kharatyan|first1=Lusine|url=http://www.anadolukultur.org/images/UserFiles/Documents/Editor/Moush_Sweet_Moush.pdf|title=Moush, sweet Moush: Mapping Memories from Armenia and Turkey|last2=Keskin|first2=Ismail|last3=Keshishyan|first3=Avetis|last4=Ozturk|first4=S. Aykut|last5=Khachatryan|first5=Nane|last6=Albayrak|first6=Nihal|last7=Hakobyan|first7=Karen|date=2013|publisher=The Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (dvv international)|isbn=978-3-942755-12-2|page=69|quote=The Saint Karapet Monastery is one of the oldest Armenian monasteries in Moush Valley, dating back to the 4th century when Gregory the Illuminator, founder of the Armenian Apostolic Church, is believed to have buried the relics of Saint John the Baptist (Karapet) here.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103033505/http://www.anadolukultur.org/images/UserFiles/Documents/Editor/Moush_Sweet_Moush.pdf|archive-date=3 January 2015}}</ref><ref name="Avetisyan">{{cite book|last=Avetisyan|first=Kamsar|url=http://armenianhouse.org/avetisyan/taron.html|title=Հայրենագիտական էտյուդներ [Armenian studies sketches]|publisher=Sovetakan Grogh|year=1979|location=Yerevan|page=204|language=hy|contribution=Տարոնի պատմական հուշարձանները [Historical monuments of Taron]|quote=...ըստ ավանդության, Գրիգոր Լուսավորիչը ամփոփել է ս. Կարապետի և Աթանագինե եպիսկոպոսի նշխարները։|author-link=:hy:Կամսար Ավետիսյան|access-date=25 October 2014|archive-date=7 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107092712/http://armenianhouse.org/avetisyan/taron.html|url-status=live}}</ref>]] According to Armenian tradition, the remains of John the Baptist would in some point have been transferred by [[Gregory the Illuminator]] to the [[Surb Karapet Monastery|Saint Karapet Armenian Monastery]].<ref name="Kharatyan" /><ref name="Avetisyan" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page