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Agop, Giovanni Hollov

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AGOP, GIOVANNI HOLLOV. - Armenian Catholic priest, b. in Constantinople in the first half of the 17th century, distinguished as a grammarian, translator into Armenian of several Catholic ascetical works, and apologist toward his dissident compatriots.

He is owed in particular the Armenian version of the Imitation of Christ (Rome 1674) and of the work by Marco da Palermo La Confessione e accusa secondo l'ordine dei 10 Comandamenti e dei 7 vizi capitali (Constantinople 1701). Lo specchio della verità (Venice 1680), written in Armenian, aims to demonstrate that the Catholic Church is the only true Church. As an Armenian writer A. is little esteemed by his compatriots, because the purity of his language leaves much to be desired.

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: S. Somalian, Quadro della storia letteraria di Armenia, Venice 1829, pp. 162-63; F. Tournebize, s. v. in DHG, I, coll. 1004-1005.

Martino Jugie

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 500.

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Jugie, Martino. “Agop, giovanni hollov.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 500. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/agop-giovanni-hollov.

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Jugie, Martino. “Agop, giovanni hollov.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 500. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/agop-giovanni-hollov.

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  author    = {Jugie, Martino},
  title     = {Agop, giovanni hollov},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {500},
  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/agop-giovanni-hollov}
}

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