SCENE IN A CATHEDRAL.
ARMENIAN PATRIARCH SHOT DURING SERVICE.
News comes from Constantinople that a young Armenian made a dastardly attempt to murder the Armenian Patriarch, Mgr. Ormanian. He fired at the venerable prelate while he was celebrating service in the Cathedral of Koum Kapou, and wounded him slightly in the shoulder, according to Reuter. The occasion of the outrage was the celebration of mass on the Armenian Christmas. The assailant, who is a chemist's apprentice, named Agap Hatchilriau, of Erzeroum, was immediately seized and Minded over to the police. He narrowly escaped bein<» Ivnched. Monsignor Ormanian, Patriarch of the Gregorian Armenian Church, is the ecclesiastical head of all the Armenians in Turkey, of whom, including Gregorians, Roman Catholics, and Protestants; there are some 925,000 in thte Sultan's dominions. At one time the Patriarch wielded civil as well as ecclesiastical authority over his community, beinr* a recognised officer, of the Imperial Government, with the rank of a Vizier.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12213, 7 March 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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158SCENE IN A CATHEDRAL. New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12213, 7 March 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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