... in the year 331, St. Gregory withdrew himself from all entercourse with men, and retiring into Upper Armenia, took up his abode in a cavern in Mount Sebuh.  Here he lived, more like an heavenly spirit than a creature of Earth, until his departure from this life to inherit the reward of the righteous.  He superintended the Armenian Church during a period of thirty years.
    His body was found by some shepherds, who buried it in the same spot raising thereon a heap of stones.  There it lay unknown for a few years, when it was discovered by a hermit named Karnig, who, it is said, was directed to the spot by divine revelation... (Armenia and the Armenians, Isavertenc, 1877)