Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians . ans, owing to the frequent incursions, de-vastations, barbarous massacres, and being led captives ingreat numbers by the Saracens, afterwards by the Mongolianand Tartar hordes, were compelled to immigrate into safer dis-tricts and countries, especially after the overthrow of the inde-pendent dynasty in Cilicia. When Constantinople was taken by the Turks, SultanMohammed II. appointed Bishop Hovaghim, of Brusa, thePatriarch over the Armenians then in Constantinople and invicinity. This naturally also drew a good number of the Ar-menians from other parts, w
Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians . ans, owing to the frequent incursions, de-vastations, barbarous massacres, and being led captives ingreat numbers by the Saracens, afterwards by the Mongolianand Tartar hordes, were compelled to immigrate into safer dis-tricts and countries, especially after the overthrow of the inde-pendent dynasty in Cilicia. When Constantinople was taken by the Turks, SultanMohammed II. appointed Bishop Hovaghim, of Brusa, thePatriarch over the Armenians then in Constantinople and invicinity. This naturally also drew a good number of the Ar-menians from other parts, while nearly two centuries beforethis time Jerusalem was also made the seat of a Patriarch. The seat of the Archbishop at Sis in Cilicia, Akhtamar,in the Island of Lake Van, and Etchmiadzin by bishops fear-ing the title of Catholicos. Some of the occupants of theseseats were very much like some of the popes of Rome at theexpense of honor, distinction, and well-being of their peoplethey sought honor and distinction, but some others nobly. ARMENIAN CATHOLICOS IN CHURCH UNIFORM. AND THE ARMENIANS. 147 suffered privation, prosecution, exile, and martyrdom withtheir flock. The Papal missionaries, under the order of the Unitorswho had insidiously sown the seeds of dissension in the Ar-menian Church, took advantage of every calamity that befellthe people, and afterwards being also augmented by theJesuits and their sagacity, until they converted this dissensioninto a volcanic eruption about the beginning of the last cen-tury. Consequently thousands of the Armenians avowed theirallegiance in spiritual matters to the Pope of Rome. The Mohammedan conquerors always dealt with theirChristian subjects with the utmost contempt, unmodified in-justice, unabated cruelty, and relentless persecution. Un-doubtedly did many of the people delude themselves with theidea that by uniting with the Romish Church they would enjoyprotection through the influence of Romish France, then moreinfluential in the
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