History of Armenia, by Father Michael Chamich; from B. C. 2247 to ...

156 HISTORY OF ARMENIA.
wife of Anak, conceived her child, afterwards
St. Gregory the Illuminator, according to her
A. D. 257.
information after delivery. Anak removed
thence, for the completion of his project, to the
city of Valarshapat, where the king Khosrove
had taken up his residence. Here, and at this
peiiod of our history, St. Gregory was born,
in the year of our Lord 257.
Anak was received
by the king with honour and respect, little
suspecting the horrid fate that awaited him.
1 he assassin having perceived his opportunity,
struck the unfortunate Khosrove to the heart,
a (1 fled. He was immediately pursued by the
Armenian soldiers, to avoid falling into whose
hands he plunged into the river Arax, and was
drowned. The troops then seized the family
of the assassin, and massacred every member of
it except our blessed Illuminator, St. Gregory,
who was saved by his nurse Sophia, assisted by
her brother Euthalius, both of whom were
christians and natives of Cesarea, whither they
fled with the child. He was there baptized
by them, and named Gregory, agreeably to a
divine revelation which had shortly before been
made concerning him. When he attained the
age of maturity, Sophia caused him to marry
Mary, the daughter of one David, a christian
proselyte, from whom two sons were born
named Vertauues and Aris takes, The latter