In Armenia , Erewmanavank ( " Convent of the Holy Apparition " ) near Egin was said to be built on the actual location of the encounter of Placidus with the deer . The earliest surviving text detailing this is a manuscript from 1446 , but the monastery is far older than that and probably a Byzantine foundation ; J.-M . Thierry considers it to be a 10th-century foundation , perhaps by Greeks from Cappadocia . Although the monastery was destroyed during the Armenian Genocide , Thierry , in the 1980s , noted that a transmitted form of the legend still existed among local Muslim Kurds who talked of a " deer of light " appearing at the site
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