San Lazzaro is entirely occupied by the Mekhitarist monastery of San Lazzaro , which is the headquarters of the Armenian Catholic Mekhitarist Congregation . The monastery is known in Armenian as Մխիթարեան Մայրավանք , '' M ( ə ) khitarian Mayravank ' '' , which literally translates to the " Mekhitarist Mother Monastery " and in Italian as '' Monastero Mechitarista '' . The monastery currently contains a church with a bell tower , residential quarters , library , museums , picture gallery , manuscript repository , printing plant , sundry teaching and research facilities , gardens , a bronze statue of Mkhitar erected by Antonio Baggio in 1962 , an Armenian Genocide memorial erected in the 1960s , and a 14th-century basalt '' khachkar '' ( cross stone ) donated by the Soviet Armenian government in 1987
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
San Lazzaro degli Armeni