THE LIFE OF MASHTOTS

Therefore, taking with him a group of young men, by authority of the King and the consent of Saint Sahak, the blessed Mashtots took leave with a kiss of holiness, on the fifth year of King Vramshapouh's reign, and came to the region of Aram, to two Assyrian cities, one of which was called Edessa, and the other, Amid. There he presented himself to two bishops, one of whom was called Babilas, and the other, Akakios. And they, clergy and nobles of the city, received the visitors with due honors and solicitude, in keeping with the custom of Christians.

The dedicated teacher then divided his pupils into two groups, assigning one group to the Assyrian school in the city of Edessa, and the other to the Hellenic school in Samosata.