GYUMRI, MAY 30, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The number of monuments in Gyumri was added by one more. The bust of Khrimian Hayrik was erected on May 29 in the yard of No41 school. This event, according to pedagogues, is obliging for the school called after the late Catholicos. Being a clergyman, Catholicos of All Armenians Khrimian Hayrik strived for reviewing the national constitution, completing the number of delegations of western Armenians living in provinces. He struggled actively against the tsarist law on forced taking church properties, criticized European approaches connected with the Armenian cause. As school Director Artak Avetisian mentioned, Khrimian Hayrik's greatness is really exclusive, he was able to go towards the people, casting off clergyman's fetters, and to inspire the people with patriotic spirit. "I wished to embody our, Armenians' unbedning will and consience, and the result of my work will be the one that the younger generation, pronouncing the name of His Holiness, does it as an oath," sculpture's author Artur Hovhannisian mentioned on the day of opening.

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