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St. John Damascene - English
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St. John Damascene was born in Damascus in 690 AD. His father was John al-Mansur, a Christian official in the court of the Moslem khalif. St. John was baptized in infancy, and had a tutor called Cosmas who taught he the sciences and theology. Cosmas became a poet and singer, and subsequently accompanied his adopted brother (St. John) to the monastery in which both became monks.

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John of Damascus, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/jo/JohnDscus.html

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c.675–c.749, Syrian theologian, Father of the Church and Doctor of the Church. He was brought up at the court of the caliph in Damascus, where his father was an official, and he was educated by a Sicilian monk. John inherited his father’s office but resigned it (c.726) and entered a monastery in Palestine.

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The Ecole Glossary - English
URL: http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/glossary/damascene.html

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John of Damascus Called the last Greek father and the first Christian Aristotelian, St. John Damascene was born c. 676 into a wealthy Christian family. His father was a logothelete, an advisor to the vizier, and John took over the post when his father retired. C. 716 John resigned from his position and retired to the Mar Saba monastery, where he eventually became a monk. He wrote three treatises in defense of the use of icons and opposed the iconoclasm of Emperor Leo III the Isaurian. These works led to John's condemnation at the Council of Hieria in 754.

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Patron Saints Index: Saint John Damascene - English
URL: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintj45.htm

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Also known as Doctor of Christian Art; Jean Damascene; Johannes Damascenus; John Chrysorrhoas ("golden-stream"); John of Damascus Memorial 27 March (Latin Church); 4 December (Greek Church) Profile Son of Mansur, representative of the Christians to the court of the Muslim caliph. Apparently thrived as a Christian in a Saracen land, becoming the chief financial officer for caliph Abdul Malek. Tutored in his youth by a captured Italian monk named Cosmas. Between the Christian learning of the monk, and that of the Muslim schools, John became highly educated in the classical fields (geometry, literature, logic, rhetoric, etc.).

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Biography: John of Damascus, hymn-writer, defender of icons (4 Dec 750) - English
URL: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/12/04.html

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John is generally accounted "the last of the Fathers". He was the son of a Christian official at the court of the moslem khalif Abdul Malek, and succeeded to his father's office.

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Catholic Online - Saints - St. John of Damascus - English
URL: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=66

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Saint John Damascene has the double honor of being the last but one of the fathers of the Eastern Church, and the greatest of her poets. It is surprising, however, how little that is authentic is known of his life. The account of him by John of Jerusalem, written some two hundred years after his death, contains an admixture of legendary matter, and it is not easy to say where truth ends and fiction begins.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint John Damascene - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08459b.htm

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Born at Damascus, about 676; died some time between 754 and 787. The only extant life of the saint is that by John, Patriarch of Jerusalem, which dates from the tenth century (P.G. XCIV, 429-90). This life is the single source from which have been drawn the materials of all his biographical notices. It is extremely unsatisfactory from the standpoint of historical criticism.

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Island of Freedom - St. John Damascene - English
URL: http://www.island-of-freedom.com/DAMASCEN.HTM

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Saint John Damascene, or John of Damascus, was a theologian, writer, scholar, Father of the Church, and Doctor of the Church. At the age of twenty-three his father employed a Sicilian monk named Cosmas to tutor his son in mathematics, music, astronomy, and theology.

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