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The vicar of the Armenian Catholic diocese of the Northern America, Father Anton the Very Rev. Adamian turned the Translator’s feasts into a patriotic, humanistic and literature class delivering a lecture on Hovhanness Shiraz that would, certainly, remain in the memory of the audience for a long time. The chairman of the council of the heads the Armenian Chatolic Colleges Georg the Very Rev.  Yeghiaian was also present at the event. The core of the event was the presentation of the lyrical heritage of H. Shiraz dedicated to his 100th anniversary. In her opening speech the student of Mesrobian College Stephany Paltaian noted, “The years passes, generations follow one another, but every single Armenian child must continue to recite every line of Shiraz and even shout for the sake of justice and for retrieving Mount Masis”. 

Father Anton the Very Rev. Adamian made a speech, in which he praised the great singer of sorrow and struggle, who was beloved and would always be so in Armenia and in Diaspora.

At the end of the event the head of the College Greguar Galoust thanked Father Adamian for sending such important messages to those presents and noted that the new Armenian generations would be the faithful followers of Shiraz and the ones who would make his unfulfilled dreams complete. 

 

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