The relic of St. John the Baptist was moved to the church of Mkhchyan named after the Saint

On the Saturday following the feast of the Holy Resurrection, the Armenian Apostolic Church commemorates the beheading of St. John the Baptist. On that occasion, by the special order of His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, the cross-shaped reliquary containing the relics of the Saint was moved from the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin to the St. John the Baptist church of Mkhchyan. The St. John the Baptist church of Mkhchyan was reconsecrated on this feast day and the day was declared a day of the church’s vow. On that occasion, the family of Argam Abrahamyan, the benefactor of the church’s renovation, organized a feast of sacrifice.