An Armenian-language publication issued in the wake of the assassination of Archibishop Leon Tourian by nine Dashnaks, members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, in his Washington Heights, Manhattan church during a Christmas Eve service in 1933. 

Printed in Union City, New Jersey in January of 1934 by an A. Debaghian and generously illustrated. A remarkable, seemingly unrecorded survivor.

[Armenian-Americana]. THE CRUCIFIED PRELATE (roughly translated) - [Memorial Booklet Printed Following the Assassination of Archbishop Leon Tourian]. Union City, New Jersey: A. Debaghian, (1934). [16]pp. Approximately 12 1/4" x 9 1/2." Offset printed and stapled paper wrappers. Text in Armenian. Center folds, vertical and horizontal, through entire booklet, otherwise sound, unmarked, and about very good.