Yusik

Also known as Husik.

Saint

Hereditary patriarch of Armenia

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 347?

Place of Death: T‘ordan, Daranalik‘.

The date is given by Garsoian (1989, p. 431). The place is given in the Epic Histories [3:12].

Relationships

Father: Vrt‘anēs.

This relationship is given in the Epic Histories [3.5].

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: said to be a daughter of Tiran, king of Armenia.

This relationship is given in the Epic Histories [3.5]. 

Children: 

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

At‘anagines

Pap

Evidence

from the Epic Histories:

[3:12]

Beaten with rods and shattered, the holy high-priest of God, the blessed youth Yusik was flung there battered and half dead. [Then] the ministers from the palatine church of the royal fortress of Bnabd in the district of Great Cop‘k‘ raised him up and bore him to the district of Daranalik‘, to the village of T‘ordan, and he died there after a few days, and was laid [to rest] near Grigor and his fathers. 

References

The Epic Histories Attributed to P‘awstos Buzand (Nina G Garsoïan tr. and comm.) (Harvard U.P., 1989).

Garsoïan, Nina. “The Aršakuni Dynasty” in The Armenian People from Anicent to Modern Times v. 1 (Richard G. Hovannisian ed.) (St Martin’s Press, 1997).

“Généalogie de la famille de Saint Grégoire, Illuminateur de l’Arménie, et vie de Saint Nersès, patriarche des Arméniens, par un auteur anonyme du Ve siècle” (Jean-Raphael Emine tr.) in Collection des historiens anciens et modernes de l’Arménie v. 2 (1869).  

Russell, James R. “Faustus” in Encyclopædia Iranica (1999, updated 2012, online edition).