AGATHANGELOS. - Armenian historian of the 4th century, Roman by nationality. At the behest of King Tiridates he wrote the history of the latter, of St. Gregory the Illuminator and of the conversion of Armenia to Christianity.
However, the critical studies of A. von Gutschmid, of Sarghissian, of Tašian, etc. demonstrate that the work attributed to A. is made up of various writings: History of Tiridates and of St. Gregory the Illuminator; History of the martyrdom of the Hripsimian Virgins; Doctrine of St. Gregory the Illuminator; Vision of St. Gregory the Illuminator, composed in the 5th century by an Armenian and in the Armenian language, while the History of Tiridates in its primitive form may have been composed by A. himself in Greek or in Latin. The Acts of St. Gregory the Illuminator have come down to us also in Greek and in Arabic; the Greek is a translation of the Armenian text and was published with the Latin version by P. G. Stilting in the Acta SS. Septembris, VIII, Brussels 1867, pp. 320 ff. The Mechitarists of Venice prepared an Italian version of A. with notes and revised, as to style, by N. Tommaseo (Venice 1843).
Bibliography4 worksBesides the texts in Armenian: A. von Gutschmid, Agathangelus, in Zeitschr. Deutsch. Morg. Gesellsch., 21 (1877), pp. 1-60; P. de Lagarde, A
BIBL.: Besides the texts in Armenian: A. von Gutschmid, Agathangelus, in Zeitschr. Deutsch. Morg. Gesellsch., 21 (1877), pp. 1-60; P. de Lagarde, Agathangelus, Göttingen 1887; A. Thoumanian, Agathange et la doctrine de l'église arm. ou Vᵉ siècle, Lausanne 1879 (of Protestant tendency); O. Bardenhewer, Geschichte der altö. Literatur, V, Freiburg im Br. 1932, pp. 182-85.
Kibarian, Cirillo. “Agatangelo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 436. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/agatangelo.
MLA
Kibarian, Cirillo. “Agatangelo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 436. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/agatangelo.
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@incollection{ec1_agatangelo,
author = {Kibarian, Cirillo},
title = {Agatangelo},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {436},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/agatangelo}
}
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