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 «ISTOItT OF ARUENIA.

Jie was "engaged in this act of devotion, behold, wonderful to relate, Hirahat appeared before him, having been released from the Persian bonds .in a miraculous manner. Nerseh experienced an extasy of pleasure ; and glorifying the Air .returned to Duin, accompanied by his brother. ,They immediately went to the Pontiff to testify what God had done for them through the inter- position of Saint Gregory, When Mihran discovered ihe escape of Hirahat, be imme- diately summoned Hazd, the other Armenian captive, into his presence, and urged him to renounce Christianity and adopt the worship of the sun and fire. Hazd indignantly refused, when the cruel tyrant ordered him to be beheaded. His body, after the departure of the Persians from that place, was interred in the chapel of St. Gregory.
 * iliighty for this signal instance of his favour, he

��CHAPTER IX.

The acts of the Vahanians against Hazaravukht.

Vahan the Armenian general, who, as we a.d.483. men in the village of Mucknarinj, on the retreat xif Mihran beyond the frontiers of Armenia, pro-

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