YEREVAN, April 23. /Mediamax/. Head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, All Armenian Catholicos Garegin II started his pilgrimage to the desert of Der-Zor (Syria), Mediamax was informed today by the press-service of Holy Echmiadzin.
Garegin II is the first Armenian Catholicos to visit Der-Zor, where in 1915 thousands of Armenians deported from Turkey died as a result of genocide.
Tomorrow, on April 24th, Garegin II and Aram I, Catholicos of Kilikia, will hold a memorial service in an Armenian Church constructed in the desert of Der-Zor.
Catholicos Garegin II will return to Armenia on April 25th. –0–
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