Third, John claimed that, with the birth of the Son of God in the flesh ... so John was sometimes sent to sell baskets humbly in the streets of Damascus, where he had once been among the elite.

On Dec. 4 we celebrate St. John of Damascus, also known as St. John Damascene. A priest and religious, he became a doctor of the Church. He’s also the last Church Father. Here are seven things ...

Labour, after all, comes before the virtues, and eternal blessedness follows them! ~St. John of Damascus, On the Dormition of the Holy Mother of God, Homily I (from On the Dormition of Mary, ...

The Russian Orthodox Church doesn’t celebrate this feast until later this month, but I thought I’d post a brief section from St. John of Damascus ... having given birth to death’s destroyer ...

On a crisp February day in 1840, Father Thomas, an Italian Capuchin friar who had lived in Damascus for over thirty years, disappeared after posting a notice in the Jewish quarter. His Muslim ...

Catholics will remember and celebrate the life of the great Arab Church Father St. John of Damascus on Dec. 4. Eastern Orthodox Christians and Eastern Catholics, whose tradition has been ...

Damascus (AsiaNews) Pope John Paul II was a new 'Baptist', "the living and daring conscience of the world", wrote Gregorius III Lahham, Greek Melkite Patriarch of Damascus, in a letter to the ...

Saint John of Damascus was born about the year 680 at Damascus, Syria into a Christian family. His father, Sergius Mansur, was a treasurer at the court of the Caliph. John had also a foster brother, ...