Good Friday services held at Glendale Memorial Hospital

By Mark Kellam

April 24, 2019 3:08 PM PT

Dignity Health Glendale Memorial Hospital observed Good Friday last week with a special service led by Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, primate of the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America and St. Leon clergy.

The service was held in the hospital’s lobby.

After the service, Derderian and Father Vatche Hayrapetyan blessed patients at the hospital.

Good Friday commemorates the death of Jesus Christ, while Easter celebrates his resurrection.

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Mark Kellam

Mark Kellam was city editor of the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader. He joined Times Community News in July 2011 as the business-politics reporter and was promoted to city editor in January 2013. Previously, he was an editor at the Los Angeles Daily News and managing editor at Champion Newspapers in Chino, Calif. Prior to that, he was an editor at Amos Suburban Newspapers in Dayton, Ohio, for several years. Kellam holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University.