The Armenian nation is unique in how it has produced it's geniuses during trying times and when the light of hope was absent...

Mesrop Mashtots was born in this way. 
He was the light of hope which brightened the faces of his people on which the spirit of agony had too long frowned upon. The shining rays of light he gave off during his life shines to this day in the hearts and minds of his people and these rays translate into the historic "ayb-ben-gim" through their hands...