John of Damascus

Γεγονότα ζωής

1. educated — 690

   Educated by a Sicilian monk named Cosmas; received Christian theological and classical Greek education while family held senior position in Umayyad fiscal administration.

2. tonsured — 725

   Resigned his civil post in Damascus and entered monastery of Mar Saba in Judean desert; ordained priest by Patriarch of Jerusalem.

3. wrote — 726

   Wrote Three Treatises Against the Iconoclasts — defending icon veneration when Byzantine bishops could not.

4. died — 749

   Died at Mar Saba monastery; vindicated posthumously at Seventh Ecumenical Council (Nicaea II, 787).

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