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The Book of Sadness
Grigor Narekatsi
Consisting of eleven thousand poetic lines arranged in 95 chapters, the book is an appeal to God by a mortal asking for forgiveness for his sins. St. Grigor Narekatsi thus assumes upon himself all the sins committed by mankind. There is hardly another text enumerating the human sins in more detail. Throughout the centuries, this book has been revered as sanctity.