San Lazzaro degli Armeni

San Lazzaro degli Armeni

Aerial view of the island in 2013
Location in the Venetian Lagoon
Geography
Coordinates 45°24′43″N 12°21′41″E / 45.411979°N 12.361422°ECoordinates: 45°24′43″N 12°21′41″E / 45.411979°N 12.361422°E
Adjacent bodies of water Venetian Lagoon
Area 30,000 m2 (320,000 sq ft)[1]
Country
Region Veneto
Province Province of Venice
Commune Venice
Demographics
Population 35 [2]
Ethnic groups Armenians

San Lazzaro degli Armeni (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsan laːdzarɔ deʎi armeni]; Venetian: San Làzaro dei Armeni, lit. "Saint Lazarus of the Armenians",[3][4] Armenian: Սուրբ Ղազար, Surb Ghazar)[lower-alpha 1] is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It lies to the southeast of Venice and immediately west of the Lido.

A leper colony during the Middle Ages, since 1717[5] the island has been home to the Armenian Catholic Monastery of San Lazzaro.[lower-alpha 2] It is the headquarters of the Mechitarist Order and, as such, one of the world's prominent centers of Armenian culture[7] and Armenian studies.[8]

From 1789 until the early 20th century it was a major center of Armenian printing. The island is one of the best known historic sites of the Armenian diaspora.[9] The monastery has a large collection of books, journals, artifacts and the third largest collection of Armenian manuscripts.

History

Middle Ages

In 810 the Republic of Venice allocated the island to the abbot of the Benedictine Monastery of St. Ilario of Fusina.[10] In 1182 a leper colony (hospital for people with leprosy) was established at the island.[10] It was chosen for a leper colony since the island is relatively far away from the principal islands forming the city of Venice. It received its name from St. Lazarus, the patron saint of lepers.[11] In 1348 the leper colony was renovated and a church dedicated to San Lazzaro was built.[10] The hospital was moved to Venice in 1595 and the island was gradually abandoned.[12] In the 17th century the island was leased to various religious groups.[12] By the early 18th century only a "few crumbling ruins" remained in the isle.[11]

Armenian period

18th-19th centuries

The island in an engraving by Coronelli, 1696
San Lazzaro circa 1877

In 1701 Mkhitar Sebastatsi (Mechitar or Mekhitar), an Armenian Catholic monk, founded a Catholic order in Constantinople that would later be called after him.[13] The order moved to Modon (Methoni) in Peloponnese in 1703,[14] after repressions by the Ottoman government and the Armenian Apostolic Church. In 1711 the order received recognition by Pope Clement XI.[13] In April 1715, a group of twelve Armenian Catholic monks led by Mkhitar Sebastatsi arrived in Venice from Morea (Peloponnese), following its invasion by the Ottoman Empire.[15] The Venetian Admiral Mocenigo and Governor of Morea, Angelo Emo "sympathizing deeply with the fearful distress of the unfortunate community, yielded to their earnest entreaties for permission to embark on a government vessels which was about to leave for Venice."[14]

On September 8, 1717, the Venetian Senate ceded the island of St. Lazarus to the Mechitarist order. "The Armenian Monks at once hastened to occupy the ruins on the Island... and the Abbot ordered the most necessary repairs to be at once made on the crumbling and dilapidated buildings which still remained."[16] The Armenian monks were required not to rename the island.[12] Upon acquisition the construction of a two-storey Armenian monastery began. The preexisting church of St. Lazarus was renovated. Gardens, residency buildings, a seminary and other structures were constructed.[12] The construction of the monastery was completed by 1740.[17] Mkhitar Sebastatsi died in 1749[18] and was succeeded by Stepanos Melkonian of Constantinople whose tenure as abbot ended 1799.[19]

The original isle in 1813
The expanded isle in 1945

The Venetian Republic was disestablished by Napoleon in 1797, however, the Mechitarist congregation was "left in peace",[20] allegedly because of the "presence of an indispensable Armenian official in Naopleon's secretariat."[21] In 1810 Napoleon signed a decree, which declared the congregation may continue to exist as an "Academy of learning".[19]

The island has been enlarged several times. In 1815 by the permission of the Austrian Empire the island's size doubled from around 7,200 m2 (77,500 sq ft) to 14,400 m2 (155,000 sq ft).[12]

During the 1848 revolutions in the Italian states a small garrison was stationed at the island.[22]

William Dean Howells described the island and the monastery in 1866 as follows: "As a seat of learning, San Lazzaro is famed throughout the Armenian world, and gathers under its roofs the best scholars and poets of that nation. In the press of the convent books are printed in some thirty different languages; and a number of the fathers employ themselves constantly in works of transition."[23]

San Lazzaro as seen from a boat

20th century and beyond

The island was enlarged twice in the first half of the twentieth century. First, in 1912 the old canal was filled in and the shoreline was straightened. Following the Second World War, between 1947 and 1949 significant land was reclaimed in the southeastern and southwestern sides of the island. Furthermore, a wall was built around the shore. A fire broke out in 1975, which partially destroyed the library and damaged the church, and destroyed two Gaspare Diziani paintings. Between 2002 and 2004, an extensive restoration of the monastery's structures was carried out by the funding of the Italian government.[10]

Currently, over thirty people reside at the island, including monks, seminarians and students.[2][24][25] The island may be reached by a vaporetto from the San Zaccaria station. There is one guided tour a day, starting at around 3:30 pm.[26] There are tours in several different languages.[24][25]

The monastery

The interior of the church (left) and the cloister of the monastery (right).

The island currently contains a church with a neo-Gothic interior, a tall onion-shaped campanile (bell tower), residential quarters, library, museum, picture gallery, manuscript repository, printing plant, and sundry teaching and research facilities.[13] The gardens of the monastery have been admired by many visitors.[27][28][29][30] An Armenian Genocide memorial was erected in the 1960s.[31]

Collections

The monastery library has over 150,000 printed books and periodicals,[32] 3,000[33]–4,000 Armenian manuscripts,[24][25][34] Oriental artifacts,[35] and an Egyptian mummy.[25][32] The Egyptian mummy is attributed to Namenkhet Amun, a priest at the Amon Temple in Karnak, Egypt. It was sent to San Lazzaro in 1825 by Boghos Bey Yusufian, an Egyptian minister of Armenian origin. Radiocarbon dating revealed that it dates to 450-430 BC (Late Period of ancient Egypt).[36]

San Lazzaro holds the third largest[30][33] collection of Armenian manuscripts after Matenadaran in Yerevan, Armenia (11,000 in the strict sense[33] to 17,000 in total)[37] and the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem (3,890).[33] According to a contemporaneous source, in 1836, the library had 10,000 books and 400 (mostly Armenian) manuscripts.[38] The earliest manuscripts preserved at the library of manuscripts at San Lazzaro date to the eighth century.[39][34] The library holds one of the ten[40] extant copies of Urbatagirk, the first-ever Armenian book printed by Hakob Meghapart in Venice in 1512.[41] The monastery also preserves 44 Armenian prayer scrolls (hmayil).[42] In the mid-19th century an English publication wrote that "the convent may be regarded as a species of metropolis of Armenian literature."[43] The ceiling of the library of manuscripts was painted by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.[39]

Publishing house

A publishing house was established at the monastery in 1789. In the early 19th century, a number of important publications were made on the island,[44] including a seminal two-volume dictionary of Classical Armenian (Նոր Բառգիրք Հայկազեան Լեզուի, 1836-7), which remains "unsurpassed".[44] Beginning in 1800 a periodical journal has been published at the island. Bazmavep, established in 1843, continues to be published to this day. The printing press at San Lazzaro is the oldest continuously operating Armenian publishing house in the world.[45]

Significance

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church calls the convent of San Lazzaro and the order of the Mechitarists "especially remarkable" of the religious orders based in Venice.[46] San Lazzaro is "one of the Armenian diaspora's richest enclaves of culture".[47] It has sometimes been called "little Armenia"[48][49] (including by Catholicos Karekin II).[50] The New York Times wrote in 1919: "For more than two centuries this island has been an Armenian oasis transplanted to the Venetian lagoon."[51] Mary M. Tarzian suggests that Armenian nationalism among Armenians in the Ottoman Empire emerged from the educational vision of the Mechitarists in San Lazzaro.[52] Charles Yriarte wrote in 1877 that the Armenians "look with justice upon the island of San Lazzaro as the torch which shall one day illuminate Armenia, when the hour comes for her to live again in history and to take her place once more among free nations."[53]

According to Robert H. Hewsen the monastery of San lazzaro "for a full century was the only center of intensive Armenian cultural activity that the Armenians possessed" and until the establishment of the Lazarev Institute in Moscow in 1815 "the heritage of the Armenian people lay almost entirely in the hands of the Mekhitarists" in San Lazzaro.[54]

The prominent Armenian poet Hovhannes Shiraz wrote a poem about the island:[55]

Օտար ջրերում հայացեալ Կղզի
Հայոց հին լույսն է քեզնով նորանում...
Հայրենիքից դուրս՝ հայրենեաց համար:		 An Armenian island in the foreign waters,
You rekindle the old light of Armenia...
Outside the homeland, for the sake of the homeland.

Rose jam

The Mechitarist monks at San Lazzaro are known for making jam from rose petal around May, when the roses are in full bloom. Besides rose petal, it contains white caster sugar, water, and lemon juice.[56] It is called Vartanush[57][58] (Western Armenian pronunciation of վարդանուշ, vardanush literally translating to "sweet rose"; also a female given name). Around five thousand jars of jam are made and sold in the gift shop in the island. Monks also eat it for breakfast.[59]

Notable residents and students

A statue of Mkhitar Sebastatsi (Mechitar)

Notable visitors

Lord Byron's visit to the island, by Ivan Aivazovsky (1899)

Cultural depictions

Numerous artists have painted the island. Among them Gevorg Bashinjaghian (1892),[81] Ivan Aivazovsky (1899),[82] Joseph Pennell (1905),[83] Hovhannes Zardaryan (1958).[84]

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to San Lazzaro degli Armeni (Venice).

References

Notes
  1. ↑ Also romanized Surb Łazar. Usually referred to as Վենետիկի Սուրբ Ղազար կղզի, Venetiki Surb Ghazar kghzi, Western Armenian: Venedigi Surp Ghazar gghzi which literally translates to "Saint Lazarus island of Venice".
  2. ↑ Armenian: Մխիթարեան Մայրավանք Սուրբ Ղազար, Mkhitarian Mayravank' Surb Ghazar; Italian: Monastero Mechitarista di San Lazzaro degli Armeni[6]
Citations
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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Imboden, Durant. "San Lazzaro degli Armeni". Europe for Visitors. Archived from the original on 24 May 2014. Its residents include 10 monks, 10 seminarians, and 15 Armenian students...
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  7. ↑ Murphy, Christopher (2011). Shadows of Forever: The Annals of Forever. Trafford Publishing. p. 311. ISBN 9781426946011. ...had transformed San Lazzaro into a world-renowned center of Armenian culture and learning.
  8. ↑ Dursteler, Eric R. (2013). A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797. BRILL. p. 459. ISBN 9004252517. ...the island of San Lazzaro on which he established a monastery that became a center for Armenian studies and led to a revival of Armenian consciousness.
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