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AVİM's Note: This news was originally written in Armenian and automatically translated into English by Google Translate.

168.am (8 November 2025)

His Holiness Catholicos Aram I visited the tomb of national hero Soghomon Tehlirian. The Catholicosate of Cilicia reports and details:

"Fresno's Ararat Cemetery is one of the Armenian historical sites in the United States. Some of the greatest figures in the modern history of the Armenian nation have found their eternal rest there."

His Holiness Aram I, during his stay in Fresno, accompanied by the pontifical entourage, visited the aforementioned cemetery on the morning of Thursday, November 6, 2025.

Led by His Holiness, the clergy performed a requiem mass for the souls of the brave martyrs and cultural servants of the Armenian nation, in particular the national hero Soghomon Tehlirian, who in 1921 terrorized the main executioner and perpetrator of the [alleged] Armenian Genocide, Talaat Pasha, as well as Prof. Richard Hovhannesian, who was one of the leading scholars of Armenian history, and the scholar William Saroyan, who was an internationally recognized scholar of the Armenian nation.