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The Mechitarists, officially the Benedictine Congregation of the Mechitarists, is an Armenian Catholic monastic order founded in 1701 by Mekhitar of Sebaste. Members use the postnominal abbreviation C
The island of San Lazzaro, with the monastery and the church of Mekhitarists.
Byron's visit to San Lazzaro in 1816
The Mekhitarist Monastery in Vienna, Austria.
The Mekhitarist Monastery of Vienna is one of the two monasteries of the Armenian Catholic Mekhitarist Congregation, located in Vienna, Austria. The main center of the order is located in San Lazzaro
Mekhitarists
…hence they are not considered a congregation within the Order of Saint Benedict. The main abbeys are San Lazzaro degli Armeni in Venice and the Mekhitarist Monastery in Vienna. There is a large convent and college for lay students at Padua, the legacy of a pious Armenian who died at Madras. In the year 1846 another…
Main entrance of the monastery
Vienna Mekhitarist emblem
The interior of the church
The monastery library