AGATHANGE

AGATHANGELUS  Or AKATHANKELOS, Armenian historian, lived during the 4th century, and wrote a History of the Reign of Dertad, or Tiridgtes, and of the Preaching of St Gregory the Illuminator . The text of this history has been considerably altered, but it has always been in high favour with the Armenians . It has been translated into several languages, and Greek and Latin translations are found in the Ada Sanctorum Bollandistarum, tome viii . As known to us the history consists of three parts, a history of St Gregory and his companions, the doctrine of Gregory, and the conversion of Armenia to Christianity . See V . Langlois, Collection des historiens anciens et modernes de l'Armenie (Paris, 1868) .