arordiners generally do not have problems visiting armenian churches and treating them as holy places, since many of them were built on the site of pre-christian temples. furthermore, some figures of the history of the armenian apostolic church are revered as arordiners in disguise: the "catholicoi" (high-ranking bishops) vazgen i (in charge 1954–1994) and garegin i (1995–1999). the former was a supporter of nzhdeh and on his tombstone, instead of a cross, he has a letter of the armenian alphabet which is considered a variant of the "swastika" and symbolic of seven armenian gods. the latter is said to have visited garni before his death and, despite being terminally ill, to have walked alone to the temple.