December 4 Saint John Damascene Doctor of the Church (676-780) breski1 Saint John was born in the late 7th century, and is the most remarkable of the Greek writers of the 8th century. His father was …More
December 4 Saint John Damascene Doctor of the Church (676-780)
breski1 Saint John was born in the late 7th century, and is the most remarkable of the Greek writers of the 8th century. His father was a civil authority who was Christian amid the Saracens of Damascus, whose caliph made him his minister. This enlightened man found in the public square one day, amid a group of sad Christian captives, a priest of Italian origin who had been condemned to slavery; he ransomed him and assigned him to his young son to be his tutor. Young John made extraordinary progress in grammar, dialectic, mathematics, music, poetry, astronomy, but above all in theology, the discipline imparting knowledge of God. John became famous for his encyclopedic knowledge and theological method, later a source of inspiration to Saint Thomas Aquinas.
When his father died, the caliph made of him his principal counselor, his Grand Vizier. Thus it was through Saint John Damascene that the advanced sciences made their apparition …More
breski1 Saint John was born in the late 7th century, and is the most remarkable of the Greek writers of the 8th century. His father was a civil authority who was Christian amid the Saracens of Damascus, whose caliph made him his minister. This enlightened man found in the public square one day, amid a group of sad Christian captives, a priest of Italian origin who had been condemned to slavery; he ransomed him and assigned him to his young son to be his tutor. Young John made extraordinary progress in grammar, dialectic, mathematics, music, poetry, astronomy, but above all in theology, the discipline imparting knowledge of God. John became famous for his encyclopedic knowledge and theological method, later a source of inspiration to Saint Thomas Aquinas.
When his father died, the caliph made of him his principal counselor, his Grand Vizier. Thus it was through Saint John Damascene that the advanced sciences made their apparition …More
December 4 - Saint John Damascene, Doctor of the Church
John Damascene (Optional Memorial)
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Ada of Le Mans
Adelmann of Beauvais
Adolph Kolping
Anno II
Apro
Barbara
Bernardo degli Uberti
Bertoara of Bourges
Christian of Prussia
Christianus
Clement of Alexandria
Cyran of Brenne
Eraclius
Felix of Bologna
Francis Galvez
Giovanni Calabria
Heraclas of Alexandria
Ioannes Hara Mondo
Jerome de Angelis
John the Wonder Worker
Maruthas
Melitus of Pontus
Osmund of …More
John Damascene (Optional Memorial)
—
Ada of Le Mans
Adelmann of Beauvais
Adolph Kolping
Anno II
Apro
Barbara
Bernardo degli Uberti
Bertoara of Bourges
Christian of Prussia
Christianus
Clement of Alexandria
Cyran of Brenne
Eraclius
Felix of Bologna
Francis Galvez
Giovanni Calabria
Heraclas of Alexandria
Ioannes Hara Mondo
Jerome de Angelis
John the Wonder Worker
Maruthas
Melitus of Pontus
Osmund of Salisbury
Pietro Tecelano
Prudens
Sigiranus
Simon Yempo
Sola
Theophanes
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Martyred in the Spanish Civil War
Eulogio Álvarez López
Ezequiel Álvaro de La Fuente
Francisco de la Vega González
Jacinto García Chicote
Robustiano Mata Ubierna
—
Ada of Le Mans
Adelmann of Beauvais
Adolph Kolping
Anno II
Apro
Barbara
Bernardo degli Uberti
Bertoara of Bourges
Christian of Prussia
Christianus
Clement of Alexandria
Cyran of Brenne
Eraclius
Felix of Bologna
Francis Galvez
Giovanni Calabria
Heraclas of Alexandria
Ioannes Hara Mondo
Jerome de Angelis
John the Wonder Worker
Maruthas
Melitus of Pontus
Osmund of Salisbury
Pietro Tecelano
Prudens
Sigiranus
Simon Yempo
Sola
Theophanes
—
Martyred in the Spanish Civil War
Eulogio Álvarez López
Ezequiel Álvaro de La Fuente
Francisco de la Vega González
Jacinto García Chicote
Robustiano Mata Ubierna