Ntra. Mrs. de Bzommar, heart of Catholic Armenians
Armenian-Catholic convent founded in 1749 by Patriarch Abraham Ardzivian, 36 kilometres north-east of Beirut and about 950 metres above the Mediterranean. It is the seat of the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate of Cilicia and the spiritual home of the Armenian Catholic Church since the 18th century.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The historic church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, built in 1771, with dome and one of the first watches installed in a church of Lebanon (1903).
- The miraculous image of the Virgin venerated as Our Lady of Bzommar, before which the faithful have been pilgrimaging for centuries; in the temple is venerated a painting of the Doloreosa that tradition attributes to Rafael or Barbieri.
- After the genocide of 1915, the Armenian-Catholic patriarchal headquarters returned definitively from Constantinople to Bzommar.
- His museum conserves relics of the Vera Cruz and a thorn attributed to the crown of the Lord's thorns, along with manuscripts of the Patriarchs; in 1940 an Armenian-style chapel was added to Our Lady of Bzommar.
Our Lady of Bzommar
Bzommar is for the Catholic Armenians Marian sanctuary, patriarchal seat and living memory of a martyr people. The faithful come to the Virgin of Bzommar in search of comfort and roots.
"Our Lady of Bzommar, Mother of the Armenian people, keeps your children scattered throughout the world.
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