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MECHITHARISTS , a See also:congregation of Armenian monks in communion with the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of See also:Rome. The founder, Mechithar, was See also:born at Sebaste in See also:Armenia, 1676. He entered a monastery, but under the See also:influence of Western missionaries he became possessed with the See also:idea of propagating Western ideas and culture in Armenia, and of converting the Armenian Church from its monophysitism and uniting it to the Latin Church. Mechithar set out for Rome in 1695 to make his ecclesiastical studies there, but he was compelled by illness to abandon the See also:journey and return to Armenia. In' 1696 he was ordained See also:priest and for four years worked among his See also:people. In 1700 he went to See also:Constantinople and began to gather disciples around him. Mechithar formally joined the Latin Church, and in 1701, with sixteen companions, he formed a definitely religious See also:institute of which he became the See also:superior. Their Uniat propaganda encountered the opposition of the Armenians and they were compelled to move to the Morea, at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time Venetian territory, and there built a monastery, 1706. On the outbreak of hostilities between the See also:Turks and Venetians they migrated to See also:Venice, and the See also:island of St Lazzaro was bestowed on them, 1717. This has since been the headquarters of the congregation, and here Mechithar died in 1749, leaving his institute firmly established. The See also:rule followed at first was that attributed to St See also:Anthony; but when they settled in the See also:West modifications from the See also:Benedictine rule were introduced, and the Mechitharists are numbered among the lesser orders affiliated to the See also:Benedictines. They have ever been faithful to their founder's See also:programme. Their See also:work has been fourfold: (1) they have brought out See also:editions of important patristic See also:works, some Armenian, others translated into Armenian from See also:Greek and See also:Syriac originals no longer extant; (2) they See also:print and circulate Armenian literature among the Armenians, and thereby exercise a powerful
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educational influence; (3) they carry on See also:schools both in See also:Europe and See also:Asia, in which Uniat Armenian boys receive a See also:good secondary See also:education; (4) they work as Uniat missioners in Armenia. The congregation is divided into two branches, the See also:head houses being at St Lazzaro and See also:Vienna. They have fifteen establishments in various places in Asia See also:Minor and Europe. There are some 150 monks, all Armenians; they use the Armenian See also:language and rite in the See also:liturgy.
See Vita del servo di Dio Mechitar (Venice, 1901); E. See also:Bore, See also:Saint-Lazare (1835) ; Max Heimbucher, Orden u. Kongregationen (1907) I. § 37; and the articles in Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchenlexicon (ed. 2) and See also:Herzog, Realencyklopadie (ed. 3), also articles by Sargisean, a Mechitharist, in Rivista stoma benedettina (1906), " La Congregazione Mechitarista." (E. C.
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