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Iconographer: Kartsonaion
Commemorates on: December 4.
Saint John was born in Damascus about die year 675 ,the son of wealthy and pious parents, of the family of Mansur. He was reared together with Saint Cosmas (see Oct. 14). who had been adopted by Joints father Sergius, a man of high rank in the service of the Caliph of Damascus. Both of these young men were instructed by a certain monk,also named Cosmas, who had been taken captive in Italy by the Arabs and later ransomed by Johns Father. Saint John became a great philosopher and enlightener of the age in which he lived.
Commemorates on: December 4.
Saint John was born in Damascus about die year 675 ,the son of wealthy and pious parents, of the family of Mansur. He was reared together with Saint Cosmas (see Oct. 14). who had been adopted by Joints father Sergius, a man of high rank in the service of the Caliph of Damascus. Both of these young men were instructed by a certain monk,also named Cosmas, who had been taken captive in Italy by the Arabs and later ransomed by Johns Father. Saint John became a great philosopher and enlightener of the age in which he lived.