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 , St ...

On Friday, many Orthodox Christians celebrated the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos. The Russian Orthodox Church doesn't celebrate this feast until later ...

It took five years to hand-carve the screen that stretches across the front of St. John Damascus, and it shows. Besides its wrought wood, the screen displays a host of icons, their angular lines ...

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, ...

On Dec. 4 we celebrate St. John of Damascus, also known as St. John Damascene, priest and religious, who also became a doctor of the Church. Thursday, July 10, 2025. A service of EWTN News.

It is customary to regard the age of the Church Fathers as ending in the East with the life of St. John of Damascus, who died around A.D. 749.

St. John of Damascus Orthodox Church at 16903 Espola Road in Poway, will be celebrating Orthodox Easter, called Pascha, on Sunday, May 1 and visitors are welcome to join in worship and celebration.

John of Damascus dies. 800. Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor. Responding to the imperial volcano. He was born John Monsur, into a wealthy Arab-Christian family of Damascus.