1. Ignatius Maloyan completed his theological studies on 6 August 1896 and adopted the religious name of Ignatius in honor of St Ignatius of Antioch.
15 Facts About Ignatius Maloyan
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Ignatius Maloyan began serving in Constantinople as an assistant to the Armenian Catholic Patriarch, Paul Petros XII Sabbaghian in 1904.
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Ignatius Maloyan was consecrated in Rome as Archbishop of Mardin on October 22,1911.
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Ignatius Maloyan tried to restore order, while encouraging devotion to the Sacred Heart.
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On February 11,1915, Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan attended a dinner at Archbishop Tappouni's residence, which the Mutasarrif attended.
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On June 1,1915, Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan met with Mar Gabriel Tappouni the Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Mardin.
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When he was brought to trial, Ignatius Maloyan stood accused of forming and leading a terrorist organization of Armenian nationalists and of hiding two boxes of guns and ammunition inside his cathedral.
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Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan replied that he preferred to die as a Christian than live as a Muslim.
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Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan ordered his priests to circulate among the other prisoners to give them Absolution and Holy Communion.
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Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan was again told by Mahmdouh Bey, as a religious duty during Jihad, that his life would be spared if he recited the Shahada and converted to Islam.
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Ignatius Maloyan recruited people from the outside in order to perpetrate the killings.
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Ignatius Maloyan murdered the Kaimakams in order to scare all other opposed Muslim men and women; he displayed the corpses of the Kaimakams in public.
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Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan was beatified in Saint Peter's Basilica by Pope John Paul II on October 7,2001.
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Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan, who died a martyr when he was 46, reminds us of every Christian's spiritual combat, whose faith is exposed to the attacks of evil.
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Leonard Melki, a Lebanese Capuchin priest who was deported in the same convoy and martyred at the Sheikhan Caves alongside Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan, was Beatified by Pope Francis in Beirut on 4 June 2022.