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Also Known As Saint Sahak the Great
Born c.345
Died September 7, 439? • Armenia
Subjects Of Study Armenian alphabet
St. Mesrop Mashtots
St. Mesrop Mashtots
Armenian theologian and linguist
Ulfilas teaching Christianity to the Goths, early 20th-century illustration.
Ulfilas
bishop of the Goths
St. Gregory the Illuminator
St. Gregory the Illuminator
Armenian apostle
St. Vardan Mamikonian
Armenian military commander
Saint Methodius
Christian theologian
Saint Cyril
Christian theologian
Domenico Ghirlandaio: St. Jerome in His Study
St. Jerome
Christian scholar
William Carey.
William Carey
British missionary
Adoniram Judson, detail from an engraving by Alfred Jones after a painting by Chester Harding, 1846
Adoniram Judson
American missionary
Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
Serbian language scholar
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
S.E.K. Mqhayi
South African poet and novelist
Nikol Pashinyan
Nikol Pashinyan
prime minister of Armenia
Robert Kocharian
president of Armenia
Tigranes II The Great
king of Armenia
Blaise, Saint
St. Blaise
Christian saint
Aram Khachaturian
Aram Khachaturian
Soviet Armenian composer
Komitas
Komitas
Armenian composer
Artavasdes II
king of Armenia
Artaxias
king of Armenia