A Commemoration of of the Feast Of Saint Vartanantz which observes Saint Vartan's Day in honor of the 451 A.D. Battle Of Avarayr led by by Vartan Mamigonian in which for the first time in history a nation went to war to protect the right to practice the Christian religion. Parallels are made to the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923 and to the current situation in the Republic of Armenia and in the Republic of Nagorno-Karabagh.