CHARLES AZNAVOUR MEETS HIS HOLINESS ARAM I IN ANTELIAS
The Iconic French Singer son of Armenian immigrants visited His Holiness Aram I on Friday 10 July in the afternoon. The artist had been invited to sing at the Beiteddine Festival in Lebanon.
His Holiness Aram I received the guests in the presence of the Prelate of Lebanon His Grace Bishop Kegham Khatcherian, the Responsible for Protocol Bishop Norayr Ashekian and the head of information office Very Rev. Krikor Chiftjian. In his welcome, the Catholicos expressed his appreciation of the great Man who had used his talent to give visibility through art to his adopted country France, and at the same time affirm his Armenian origins.
Conversations turned around Aznavour’s advocacy role in reminding the world of the denial of the genocide and the rights of the Armenian people. Since 1988 following the earthquake in Armenia, Charles Aznavour has become the Itinerant Ambassador of the Armenian people. He has used his personal resources and raised funds for the reconstruction of the disaster areas and provided humanitarian assistance to the victims in Karabagh.
In the end of the visit, His Holiness Aram I offered the Itinarant Ambassador a reproduction of the most ancient handwritten with miniatures copy of “Nareg”. This special gift was to accompany the decoration of the Order of Knights of Cilicia, the Late Catholicos Khoren I had given to him in 1977.
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