During the traditional main hearing held on April 26 in Saint Petros Square of Vatican, Pope Francis also mentioned Grigor Narekatsi, calling him the interpreter of cosmic solidarity. From the Facebook page of the Armenian Embassy in the Holy See, we got that Pope Francis, speaking about the prayer book "Matyan Voghbergutyan" said: "Saint Grigor Narekatsi was an Armenian monk who left us a prayer book in which the faith of the Armenian nation, the first nation to embrace Christianity, was reflected. Grigor Narekatsi is a shining example of universal love, to which all Christians are called."
"His Holiness also noted that the Armenian monk lived his entire life in the Narek Monastery, where he "learned to carefully examine the depths of the human soul and by merging prayer and poetry, he marked the peak of both Armenian literature and Armenian spiritual heritage," it is said in the message of the embassy.
Let's remind that in 2015 On April 12, during the liturgy dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in St. Peter's Cathedral of Vatican, the archpriest of Rome declared the Armenian medieval cleric-theologian the head of the Ecumenical Church, and in 2021 on February 2, by the decree of Pope Francis, February 27 was included in the main Roman calendar as the commemoration day of St. Grigor Narekatsi.