[TO/OF THE] CATHOLICOI 17

...they sent into exile among the leaders of the Armenian nation. Two archbishops, Astuacatur and Eremia by name, they cast into the prison of those condemned to death—which in the language of the Turks is called *Bostancıbaşı zindanı*—as evildoers and criminals. And from among the laity they delivered five individuals over to a cruel death. One of these was Sahayean Grigor Ała, whom they beheaded before the gate of Kumkapı, [at] the Armenian Patriarchal Church of the Mother of God; and another was Deli Bałtasar, whom they hanged in Samatya. The other three were blooming youths, one of whom—a deacon by rank—they hanged at the Balmumcular Çarmıh Kapısı; while the remaining two saved their lives from death by flight. And thus, instead of love, severe hatred once again took root. The priests and the people who had joined the Armenian Church were scattered and departed, and cleaved anew to the Papists. But the blood of the innocent cries out to God like [that of] Abel forever. And in the year 1820 the Greeks rebelled against the Ottoman[s]...