The anniversary of the deliverance of Gregory is also celebrated in the
Illuminator’s cathedral built in Erivan. On New Year's Day, light is brought
from Khor Virap as a religious celebration. In a recent event, Catholicos Garegin
II climbed down the same deep prison pit where the first Catholicos Grigor had
passed many agonizing years, and came out of the pit by holding a lighted
candle as symbol of the light that
