Iohannes Damascenus

Eventa vitae

  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).

Relationes

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student_of Maximus the Confessor student_of student_of Basil the Great student_of student_of Gregory of Nazianzus student_of student_of Maximus Confessor Maximus Confessor student_of Basilius Magnus Basilius Magnus student_of Gregorius Nazianzenus Gregorius Nazianzenus Iohannes Damascenus