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John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, [a] was an Assyrian Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist.He was born and raised in Damascus c. AD 675 or AD 676; the precise date and place of his death is not known, though tradition places it at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem, on 4 December AD 749. [5]
With the world's annual celebration of his birth mere weeks away, it turns out one of the most revered figures who ever walked the Earth likely didn't look like the pictures of him.
On the Orthodox Faith: Volume 3 of the Fount of Knowledge: St. John of Damascus: Norman Russell: 63 Headings on Spiritual Knowledge: The Second Part, Chapters 1-3: St. Isaac of Nineveh: Sebastian Brock: 64 On Death and Eternal Life: St. Gregory of Nyssa: Brian E. Daley: 65 The Prayers of Saint Sarapion: The Bishop of Thmuis: St. Serapion of ...
Apparently, John's father met Cosmas, a scholar who knew Greek, on the shores of Sicily when the latter was about to be executed. [2] He was crying loudly and when asked why a monk would cry in the face of death, answered that he was bemoaning the loss of the knowledge he had gathered, "for he knew nearly everything under the sun."
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an apocryphal gospel about the childhood of Jesus.The scholarly consensus dates it to the mid-to-late second century, with the oldest extant fragmentary manuscript dating to the fourth or fifth century, and the earliest complete manuscript being the Codex Sabaiticus from the 11th century.
Father Issa Thaljieh, a 40-year-old Greek Orthodox parish priest at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, kneels at the spot where tradition says Jesus was born.
The Nativity of Jesus has been a major subject of Christian art since the 4th century. The artistic depictions of the Nativity or birth of Jesus, celebrated at Christmas, are based on the narratives in the Bible, in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and further elaborated by written, oral and
John of Damascus According to tradition, the icon was in the possession of John of Damascus in the early 8th century [ 2 ] and it is associated with his miraculous healing around the year 717. According to tradition, while he was serving as Vizier to caliph Al-Walid I , he was falsely accused of treachery and his hand was cut off.