William Branham's Armenian Angel

Avak Hagopian was an Armenian “faith healer” who took the nation by storm in the 1940s. The Shakarian family and Kardashian family worked with Hagopian in an attempt to establish his ministry in the United States, largely due to millionaire Krikor Arakelian’s son who suffered from epilepsy. When Hagopian failed to heal Vaughn Aralelian, however, the families began sponsoring William Branham. Sadly, neither of the faith healers was able to cure his epilepsy. Eventually, Hagopian’s visa expired, and the family was left with William Branham. Through the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Association, they would continue working with Branham for several years.

After working with Hagopian, William Branham introduced an “angelic commission” to the story. Prior to this, as late as 1945, Branham claimed to have received his alleged “commission of healing” through a vision, and that “commission” was also not original after having apparently left the business for a few years. Interestingly, when Branham described his alleged “angel”, the description is very similar to the photographs of Hagopian that were shared by the associated press. Branham’s angel was “dark-complexioned, like the Spanish or Jewish people,” had dark hair to his shoulders, and weighed about two hundred pounds. This matched the newspaper descriptions of Hagopian; newspapers described Avak Hagopian as a "Rembrandt painting of Christ," or a "saint."

You can learn this and more on william-branham.org

Avak Hagopian:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/avak_hagopian
Tatos Kardashian:

https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/tatos_kardashian

Demos Shakarian:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/demos_shakarian

Krikor Arakelian:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/krikor_arkelien