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 ...

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 ...

St. John Damascus Nov 28, 2010 / 05:01 am Catholics will remember and celebrate the life of the great Arab Church Father St. John of Damascus on Dec. 4.

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.

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.