ALBANI. - A Caucasian people inhabiting Aguania, whose fate is bound to that of the Armenians. Tradition names Eliseus as the first preacher of Christianity among the A., who penetrated into the interior of the country and built a small church, where he was later martyred. The A. were converted entirely to the faith through the apostles sent by the Armenian Church at the beginning of the 4th century. A Church soon formed on the model of the Armenian one, with a katholikos residing in Partav and dependent on the Armenian Church. The katholikosate of the A. was suppressed in the 19th century.
The A. joined the Armenians in the religious wars against the Mazdean cult of the Persians (451). Having separated, together with the Armenians, from the universal Church, they later attempted union in 709, but the katholikos Elias of Armenia, in a council held at Partav, deposed the katholikos of the A., Nerses Bakur, promoter of the reconciliation, replacing him with Simon.
The literature of the A., begun through the work of St. Mesrob in the 5th century, was totally destroyed in the 6th century by the Xasiri. No people was subjected to vexations as much as the A., given their geographical position marking the passage from Asia to Europe; as a result of these, the Christian faith among them was completely destroyed and replaced by Islam.
Bibliography5 worksM. Kalankatuatri, Histoire des A. (trans. E. Boré), Paris 1860 (the original is in Armenian); Dr. Barxudanan Makar, Paese Albano e virini (i
BIBL.: M. Kalankatuatri, Histoire des A. (trans. E. Boré), Paris 1860 (the original is in Armenian); Dr. Barxudanan Makar, Paese Albano e virini (in Armenian), Tiflis 1893; F. Tournebize, Hist. polit. et relig. de l'Arménie, Paris 1909; Fr. Kirakos di Ganyak, Storia Armena (in Armenian), Tiflis 1910; G. Amaduni, Monachismo (in Armenian, and French trans. Brosset), Venice 1940, pp. 79-95, 130, 208.
Ciantaian, Giacomo. “Albani.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 636. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/albani.
MLA
Ciantaian, Giacomo. “Albani.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 636. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/albani.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_albani,
author = {Ciantaian, Giacomo},
title = {Albani},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {636},
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/albani}
}
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