Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler, Olympic Champion Artur Aleksanyan has lit the XII Pan-Armenian Games flame from St. Gregory the Illuminator’s torch at Khor Virap, an Armenian monastery in Ararat Province where the patron saint of the country spent more than a decade imprisoned in a pit.
Three different flames are to be lit and taken to Stepanakert, Artsakh for the inauguration ceremony of the multi-sports event.
The first one has already been ignited and is traveling to its destination. The thir...
