The cause of Christianity was now secured; king and princes and people vied with each other in obedience to Greory's instruction, and convents, churches and schools were established. Gregory in 302 received consecration as patriarch of Armenia from Leontius of Caesarea, and in 318 he appointed his son Aristax to be his successor. About 331 he withdrew to a cave in the mountain Sebuh in the province of Daranalia in Uper Armenia, and there he died a few years after unattended adn unobserved. When it was discovered he was dead his corpse was removed to the village of Thodanum or Tharotan. The remains of the saint were scattered far and near in the reign of Zeno. HIs head is daisd to be now in Italy, his right hand at Etchmiadzin, aand his left at Sis. It is almost impossible to get at Gregory's real personality through the tangled growth of ecclesiastical legend; buthe would appear to have possessed som eof that consideration for expediency which is so frequently of service to the reformer. While he did his best to undermine their system, he left the opagan priests in enjoyment of their accustomed revenues.
A number of Homilies, possibly spurious, several prayers, and about thirty of the canons of the Armenian Church are ascribed to Gregory. The homilies appeared for the first time in a work called Haschacnapadum at Constantinople in 1737; a century afterwards a Greek translation was published at Venice by th Mekhiterists; and they have since been edited in German by J.M. Schmid (ratisbon, 1872). The original authorities for Gregory's life are Agathangelos, whose History of Tiridates was published by the Mekhitarists in 1835; Moses of Chorene, Historiae Armenicae; and Simeon Metaphrastes. A Life of Gregory by the vartabed Matthew, published in Armenian at Venice in 1749, was translated into English by Rev. S.C. Malan, 1868.
from the 9th edition (1880) of an unnnamed encyclopedia