The Book of Lamentations — the Narek.
Grigor Narekatsi wrote ninety-five prayers around 1002, each headed Speaking with God from the Depths of the Heart, and each one an unsparing accusation of himself. Armenians have used the book as medicine for a thousand years — read aloud at a sickbed, kept under a pillow, given at a funeral. Francis named him a Doctor of the Church in 2015.
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