History of the Armenians, Volumes 2-3

having taken with him his provisions and twenty horsemen, and setting his face, he went into the land of the Yuns Greeks/Byzantines. And as he was returning from Vayots Dzor, he revealed his secrets to the invisible one. He had them as helpful advice for his proposal on the journey. There, the soul-stirring women showed the mercy of their minds through tears, saying: "Having taken the homeland with authority, you were a great hope for us. Now, seeing this intention, we are alienated; and you are neither alive nor dead for us." As they sat around in tears, they fell into supplication and said: "Look at us, in the impossibility of our lives, perhaps you will be sought by us. We will come with you to live and to die in a foreign land. We will fall down, joining you in mourning with unquenchable tears."

When the blessed one heard this, he mourned the appropriate matters, the impossible ones, and the expenditure of his provisions. And being inflamed as if with the armor of the Spirit, he quickly reached the land of the Vrats Georgians with the provisions of faith, so that those of his kinsmen who were there, through their hand, the path set before him might be contrived. And there his repentance became even greater, and his nightly prayers were restless, along with