"The miraculous patriarch"

He was member of St. Antoine's order. He was an educated personality, theologian, jurist, and he was speaking Arabic, Turkish, Latin, Italian and Armenian, of course. He was also a preacher, an ardent pastor and a clergyman who won the reputation of saint. During his lifetime and after his death, the reputation of the miracles he had done spreaded through the people. After two years of his death, when his tomb was opened, his body was incorruptible.

The first one was the horrible pursuits of the years 1828-1830, which tried to put an end to the Armenian Catholicism, starting from Constantinople and expanding to the provinces. About 26 Armenian catholic priests who escaped from everywhere, took refuge in the convent and were welcomed by the patriarch, but their presence made worse the economic state of the convent. The convent was obliged to send away the students of the seminary and to close it for a year.

Due to the European intervention, the pursuits stopped and by the decree of 1830 of Sultan Mahmoud II, the Armenian Catholics were known as an independent nation. Gregory VI thought that the Armenian Catholic newly independent eparchies and the believers were going to be under his domination. But Rome preferred to follow the difference of jurisdictions of Constantinople and Sis Seats in the Armenian Apostolic Church, as we mentioned in our preface.

The second fact in Gregory VI 's life was the suffering of the Lebanese people. The soldiers of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt entered Keserwan. To liberate Keserwan, the patriarch went to the Emir Bashir II, to ask his protection for Keserwan convents and churches. Beirut and Tripoli were bombarded, the Ottoman soldiers bombarded also Jounieh and in order to pursue the soldiers of Ibrahim, they destroyed the country (1840), and the patriarch devoted his life for his believers.