Mount Ararat with the historic Khor Virap monastery visible at center-left

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Saint Grigor of Narek (Narekatsi), monk of the Narek Monastery on Lake Van, composed his ninety-five-chapter, ten-thousand-line 'Book of Lamentations' (Matean Voghbergutyan) at the close of the 10th century. The poem — a sustained mystical address to God — became so universally beloved that medieval Armenian households kept it next to the Bible and used unbound pages as healing relics.

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Saint Grigor of Narek (Narekatsi), monk of the Narek Monastery on Lake Van, composed his ninety-five-chapter, ten-thousand-line 'Book of Lamentations' (Matean Voghbergutyan) at the close of the 10th century. The poem — a sustained mystical address to God — became so universally beloved that medieval Armenian households kept it next to the Bible and used unbound pages as healing relics. 

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