Note 47 — II. HERE FOLLOWETH CONCERNING ARMENIA.

The Armenian belief is, that Thaddeus, one of the Seventy, was, after the Ascension, sent by St. Thomas, according to commands given him by the Lord, to Abgarus of Edessa, who had written the celebrated letter. Thaddeus, and Bartholomew who followed him, were successively put to death by Sanatruk, the heathen nephew of Abgarus. Jude also came to preach in Armenia, and was put to death in Ormi (Urumia). The mission of Simon I do not find mentioned, but Chardin states that his body was said to be preserved in one of the churches. (See Avdall’s Tr. of Chamich’s Hist. of Armenia. Calcutta, 1827, pp. 107-111, and Smith and Dwight.)