YEREVAN, AUGUST 30, NOYAN TAPAN. Silva Kaputikian put all forces of her soul in the holy goal of re-establishment of our independent statehood, she saw the free life of Armenia and Artsakh and devotedly served for the cherished affair of reorganization and strengthening of our public life. Karekin II Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians mentioned about it in his speech made at the August 29 funeral of the prominent Armenian poetess. "God blessed the late prominent poetess, gifting her long life and fruiful pen, which she used with love and devotion to serve her Fatherland and people. We all know from childhood Silva Kaputikian's name which is identified in every Armenian child's soul with the precept giving him the Armenian language. ... The precept to love the Fatherland, to love the nation, to be the owner of our ancestors' hopes and dreams, the precept to look with belief towards the future, towards the eternity," His Holiness said. In words of His Holiness, Silva Kaputikian presents a rich and important epoch of the Armenian literature and culture with numerous cultural figures of her generation, who kept beating the pulse of the Armenian literature and culture in difficult times, lived and created with belief in the Armenians' rebirth, freedom of Armenia, the Armenian people's joint bright future. "The prominent poetess' memory will always live brigthly with her love towards the church, with her constant presence in the church life as Silva Kaputikian was one of those intellectuals who were always tied by a filial love with the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, were near late Vazgen I Patriarch. ... We pray for the God, in His dreamt heights, receives in lights and peace the soul of His servant and gifts by Holy Spirit's favour consolation to her grieving relatives," Karekin II said in his speech.

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