John of Damascus

American  

noun

1. Saint, a.d. c675–749, priest, theologian, and scholar of the Eastern Church, born in Damascus.

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John of Damascus British  

noun

1. Saint. ?675–749 _ad , Syrian theologian, who defended the veneration of icons and images against the iconoclasts. Feast day: Dec 4

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John of Damascus

A few streets away, the St John of Damascus school that took a direct hit had already resumed its normal rhythms.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2013

It’s countered by manuscripts bearing arguments from two powerful defenders of icons, St. John of Damascus and Theodore Abu Qurrah.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2012

He who is poor in spirit is, not pusillanimous as Thomas Paine charged upon Christianity but, as John of Damascus said of himself, a man of spiritual cravings, vir desideriorum.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd

John of Damascus, in the eighth century, half mystic and half scholastic, need not detain us.

From Christian Mysticism by William Ralph Inge

The great eastern teacher, St. John of Damascus, then living in the Syrian court of the chalif, lays this down in language as peremptory as that of the Pope.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies