CHAZINZARIANS, a sect of heretics who rose in Armenia in the seventh century. The word is formed of the Armenian chazui, "cross." They are also called flaurolatra, which in Greek signifies the same as Chazinarians in Armenian, viz. adversaries of the cross; they being charged with paying adoration to
the cross alone. In other respects they were Nestorians; and admitted two persons in Jesus Christ. Nicéphorus ascribes other singularities to them; particularly their holding an annual feast in memory of the dog of their false prophet Sergius, which they called aristobates.