John of Damascus, Syrian priest and saint (born 676)

John of Damascus

Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)

John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, was a Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist. He was born and raised in Damascus c. AD 675 or AD 676; the precise date and place of his death is not known, though tradition places it at his…