The first female martyr of this denomination refused to renounce her faith despite pleas to do so by the horseman she loved. The official organ of this denomination, the Hask, is decorated with an ear of corn on the cover. This denomination preserves a pagan tradition in which a rooster is slaughtered and eaten before sundown, known as matagh. One of this denomination's holiest sites is called the Deep Pit, or Khor Virap, where its patron saint was imprisoned for fourteen years. This denomination convoked the 506 Council of Dvin, which rejected the (*) Chalcedonian two-nature definition of Christ. The newest diocese of this denomination, Artsakh, was established in 1989 after a half-century of Soviet repression. This denomination, which was founded by Bartholomew and Thaddeus, and first governed by Saint Gregory the Illuminator, was established soon after Tiridat
The first female martyr of this denomination refused to renounce her faith despite pleas to do so by the horseman she loved. The official organ of this denomination, the Hask, is decorated with an ear of corn on the cover. This denomination preserves a pagan tradition in which a rooster is slaughtered and eaten before sundown, known as matagh. One of this denomination's holiest sites is called the Deep Pit, or Khor Virap, where its patron saint was imprisoned for fourteen years. This denomination convoked the 506 Council of Dvin, which rejected the (*) Chalcedonian two-nature definition of Christ. The newest diocese of this denomination, Artsakh, was established in 1989 after a half-century of Soviet repression. This denomination, which was founded by Bartholomew and Thaddeus, and first governed by Saint Gregory the Illuminator, was established soon after Tiridates the Great converted to Christianity in 301. For 10 points, name this oldest national church in the world, whose membership was considerably thinned by a genocide perpetrated by the Turks.
The first female martyr of this denomination refused to renounce her faith despite pleas to do so by the horseman she loved.
Armenian Apostolic Church [or Gregorian Church, before "Gregory" is read]