Քերթողահայր Մովսէս Խորենացու օրհներգութիւնը
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2011
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In the 5th century, after Mesrop Mashtots and Sahak Partev, it was Movses Khorenatsi who devoted himself to hymnology. He authored almost all the hymns dedicated to significant church holidays that preceded Lent and followed Holy Week. In this way, he continued and completed the work his teachers had started. Some 300 hymns, most of which he authored between the early 460s and the mid-470s, are ascribed to Khorenatsi.
Khorenatsi was the first among the Armenians to write hymns about the Virgin Mary, thus initiating Armenian songs dedicated to the Virgin Mary. In addition, he was the first Armenian to write hymns on Christ’s nativity, ascension, Pentecost, and transfiguration. Furthermore, he was the first who poetically highlighted several outstanding saints, including St. Gregory the Illuminator. Therefore, he was the first to author hymns on Armenian patrology (biography of saints). Furthermore, Khorenatsi completed to the best of his ability the hymns to light/luminosity/radiance that his teachers had started. His hymns bear witness to his thoughts, emotions, and sensibility, patriotic feelings, and the ideology of the Armenian Church.
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Բախչինեան, Հ., «Քերթողահայր Մովսէս Խորենացու օրհներգութիւնը», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2011, Պէյրութ, էջ 49-71