The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times. — Palgrave Macmillan, 1997. — Vol. II. Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century. — P. 438. — 493 p. — ISBN 0312101686, ISBN 9780312101688.
As founders of the first Christian state in around AD 301, Armenians have always felt a sense of mission as the privileged bearers of the divine grace.