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[4veritas @fourveritas]

@HomeDepot @HDCares @Frigidaire my purchase has been in my possession only 6 days installed yesterday & it does not WORK. I feel like I've been ROBBED. Now I have to wait a week for a Frigidaire technician to come & inspect an appliance that is defective & has concealed damage.

[4veritas @fourveritas]

@HomeDepot Recently Purchased @frigidaire Dishwasher

Internet # 314298606
Model # FDPC4221AS
UPC Code # 012505115936
Store SKU # 1005658638
Store SO SKU #1005711246

This Unit Does NOT sit level, is wet inside, and the top drawer is bent. Brand new sealed box that was stapled.

[4veritas @fourveritas]

Called @HomeDepot Pro Desk @ 866 333 3551 spoke to Alfonso from Georgia, what an ordeal. A sealed box w/concealed damage needs a technician to come out if 48 hours have lapsed? Only then can a Dishwasher be replaced, cant be returned without @frigidaire approval. HELP!

[Kegham Balian @kbalian90]

For over 50 years, 90-year-old Jerusalemite Armenian Hovan Bedrossian has rung the bells of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Holy Fire day.

This year, he won’t.

He’ll be forced to watch it on TV, like all the Armenians of Jerusalem, and all the other Christians.

[4veritas @fourveritas]

Israel behind Azerbaijan drone provocations to frame Iran – envoy https://t.co/LlSehNq7Vi #

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US approves emergency sale of heavy bombs to Israel https://t.co/c8GpM8vRUx #

[4veritas @fourveritas]

US ‘unsanctions’ Russian oil amid Middle East crisis https://t.co/vxy7brt3Tf #

[Muse @xmuse_]

Today, 551 years ago, the greatest artist known to mankind was born — Michelangelo Buonarroti

This is what we thank him for 👇🏻🧵

[ANCA @ANCA_DC]

PROTECT ARMENIA:

Strengthen Armenia, hold Azerbaijan accountable for its crimes, deter Azerbaijan from renewed aggression.

Click https://t.co/ItA9B3uLnU to take action now.

[History Armenia @historyarmenia]

Armenian Apostolic Church of St. John the Baptist in Yangon, Myanmar (1863)

The first Armenians in Myanmar (formerly Burma) were merchants who arrived in 1612 settled in Syriam, where the first Armenian tombstone is dated 1725. There were at one time 4 Armenian churches in Burma

[Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian]

You have to be sub 75 IQ to genuinely believe it’s in America’s best interest to attack Iran.

[4veritas @fourveritas]

@KPSanFrancisco who is in charge of Kaiser South San Francisco Home Health?

[4veritas @fourveritas]

@FrLillie Proof that CHRISTIANS ruled their LAND 1300years ago.

[Daniel McAdams @DanielLMcAdams]

Fox News right wing boomers would shit their Depends if they saw this...

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

Perhaps the most beautiful cathedral in the world after the ones in Europe is in Iran!

Welcome to the 400 year old Vank Cathedral…

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🚨 Iran PROTECTED Armenian Christians for centuries while Azerbaijan ETHNICALLY CLEANSED Artsakh and destroyed Armenian churches and landmarks!

[Lianna @lianna_armenian]

✝️ May the Lord protect all sacred heritage in #Iran 🇮🇷. There's a #Christian monastery in #Iran. Most people don't know it exists.

🇦🇲 The #Armenian Monastery of Saint Stepanos has stood for over 1,000 years. Tradition says Saint Bartholomew founded a Church here in 62 AD. A sanctuary that has witnessed millennia-still standing, still sacred.

Armenian prayers have never stopped.

St. Stepanos Monastery is widely regarded as the second most important Armenian monastery in Iran. The site was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2008.

The real magic of this place is its layered history.

Armenian tradition holds that Saint Bartholomew the Apostle founded a church at the site around AD 62, during the Parthian era. Some accounts suggest early Christian activity in the broader region as early as the 1st century.

Armenian hands built these walls.

The first monastery structure dates to the 7th century (with the earliest documented reference around 649 AD), and it was expanded in the 10th century. The current main buildings were largely rebuilt in the Safavid era after damage from wars and earthquakes.

The site suffered damage during the wars between the Seljuks and Byzantines in the 11th and 12th centuries.

In the 14th century, after destruction from wars and earthquakes (notably around 1319), it was restored in the 1320s under Bishop Zachariah.

By the 14th and 15th centuries, the monastery reached the height of its cultural and intellectual influence, serving as a center for producing illuminated manuscripts, paintings, and works in religion, history, and philosophy, many of which survive in collections like the Matenadaran in Yerevan, Armenia.

The early Safavid dynasty (16th century) initially protected Armenian communities, but the region became a battleground in Ottoman-Safavid conflicts. The monastery gradually declined. In 1604–1605, Shah Abbas the Great forcibly relocated many Armenians (including from nearby areas), leading to periods of abandonment.

The Safavids later reoccupied the region, and the monastery was restored in the latter part of the 17th century. Further restorations occurred in the Qajar era, with Crown Prince Abbas Mirza personally supporting repairs and maintenance in the early 19th century (around 1819–1825).

The monastery complex includes the main Church, as well as the
Darreh Sham and Chupan chapels. It is known for its intricate carvings, reddish stone, and impressive dome.

UNESCO recognizes the Armenian Monastic Ensembles (including St. Stepanos Monastery) for bearing
"continuous testimony, since the origins of Christianity and certainly since the 7th century, to Armenian culture in its relations and contact with the Persian and later the Iranian civilisations."

The monastery is considered a masterpiece of Armenian architecture, featuring a unique combination of Byzantine, Armenian, and Persian elements.

Its ancient stones still echo centuries of prayers.

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[Kegham Balian @kbalian90]

The flag of ethnically cleansed Artsakh on the 500 year-old ramparts of Jerusalem's Old City in the Armenian Quarter.

Never Forget.

[Lianna @lianna_armenian]

May Lord protect everyone and keep all innocent lives safe 🙏.

✝️68 AD. Hidden in the mountains of #Iran 🇮🇷. One of the oldest surviving 🇦🇲✝️ #Christian churches on Earth-built on the martyrdom site of an apostle. The #Armenian Monastery of Saint Thaddeus was founded in 68 AD according to sacred tradition on the very spot where Saint Thaddeus, one of the twelve apostles, was martyred and buried

This makes it an apostolic-era sanctuary where Armenians have prayed since the 1st century, long before Armenia became the first Christian nation in 301 AD.

Its walls have witnessed empires rise and fall. They all came and went, but the Armenian prayer never stopped.

The current structure is a mosaic of centuries. The oldest surviving parts, around the altar apse, date from the 7th century, with some traditions linking earlier origins to the 4th century or the apostolic era.

After an earthquake destroyed much of it in 1319, the monastery was extensively rebuilt in the 1320s under Bishop Zachariah. Further repairs occurred over the centuries, including in the 17th century.

In the early 19th century, under the patronage of Father Superior Simeon, a large western extension (a narthex-like structure) was added, deliberately echoing the design of Etchmiadzin Cathedral, the mother church of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

In 2008, UNESCO inscribed the Monastery of Saint Thaddeus (together with the Monastery of Saint Stepanos and the Chapel of Dzordzor, all in Iran's northwestern provinces) on its World Heritage List as the "Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran." This recognition highlights their outstanding universal value in Armenian architectural and decorative traditions, cultural diffusion, and pilgrimage heritage.

Every year, thousands of pilgrims-Armenians and others-still journey to this remote mountain valley to kneel where an apostle is believed to have fallen. The annual three-day pilgrimage in July venerates Saint Thaddeus and Saint Sandukht (a royal convert martyred with him).