Sainthood is the only form of humanity, of being human. Everything else is subhuman, animal, vile, and twisted.
When St. Gayane and St. Hripsime become martyrs in the face of an evil seductive king, the women hold onto God and chastity as Mary holds onto Jesus upon his birth, giving form to human nature, expressing its beauty, its righteousness, its justice.
It is the stand of human nature against the darkness of lust, the darkness of evil and sub-humanity. They are the glory of humanity and of its nature and its truth to the world. It is the strongest light, a beaming light from the heart of a saint, of a true human in the image of the divine, holding onto humanity and humanness and to Christ rather than to dogs, and to lust, and to animalistic nature.
We are human. And St. Gayane and St. Hripsime, the holiest virgins, remind us what this means. It’s holding onto virtue and chastity unto death!