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\u00a0 \u00a0 Few Western Christian realize that the first country in the Old World to become Christian wasn\u2019t Constantine\u2019s Roman Empire. \u00a0It was Armenia. \u00a0 And one of Armenia\u2019s great medieval figures, St. Gregory of Narek (ca. AD 951-1003), a monk, poet, theologian, and mystic, has just been declared a \u201cdoctor\u201d (i.e., a major, recognized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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