What is better? To have greatness or wisdom? Holiness or possessions? Money or peace? Love or power? Asked the small boy, for I have come seeking to know which path to tread, which mountain to climb, which race I ought to run, Father.
The saint looked at him, and stared.
Why do you come bearing more wisdom than I? You see more than most, knowing in advance what you should know later.
Come, do not trick a saint, and eat your food and learn to war, placing his hand upon the flowing hair of the boy, blessing him from heaven.
Behold, here is your sword.
And watching, the saint having inspired the boy, brought birth to a holy knight of Armenia, simply by his presence, known at his death as the only one who slew four Persian elephants.