Moughni Publishers 2003 First Edition Hard Cover New NEW-STILL IN ORIGINAL CELLOPHANE WRAP! As told by missionaries, merchants, diplomats, and scholars This 900 page volume with 96 color and 177 black and white pictures presents a compilation of testimonies of some hundred travelers who visited Armenia from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Their first-hand impressions of Etchmiadzin are inspiring, exciting, and an invaluable source of scholarship to the history of Eastern Christianity. Primarily in English, the book also contains some records in Italian, German, Russian and French. If you've never been to Etchmiadzin, this book will show you its glory through the eyes of other pilgrims and travelers. If you have been, recapture that Christian spirit by reliving your journey through these accounts. Recorded by Missionaries and Merchants, Diplomats and Scholars With 96 color and 176 black & white illustrations This book is the first attempt to bring together the accounts of scores of travelers who, visited Holy Etchmiadzin from the 13th to 19th centuries and recorded their observations, their sentiments and their judgments on the most holy shrine of Armenian people. These writers came from different nationalities, backgrounds, and religious affiliations. They include Catholics, many of the members of religious orders: Dominicans, Augustinians, Theatinians, Carmelites, Jesuits; and the also come from different denominations of Protestantism: Anglicans, Lutherans, Huguenots, Pre ...