• Saint John icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John of Damascus, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint John icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John of Damascus, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint John icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John of Damascus, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint John icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John of Damascus, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint John icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John of Damascus, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint John icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John of Damascus, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint John icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John of Damascus, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint John icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John of Damascus, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint John icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John of Damascus, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque, religious decor TheHolyArt
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Saint John icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John of Damascus, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque, religious decor

Saint John icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St John of Damascus, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque, religious decor

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This wonderful icon has been created with the technique of lithography and has a double varnish to ensure waterproof and duration in time. The creator of this icon has learned the canonization of iconography in workshops of the Monasteries of Mount Athos, where he was taught both the technique of lithography and the process of handmade artificial ageing.


Our venerable and God-bearing Father John of Damascus (c. 676 - December 5, 749) was also known as John Damascene, Chrysorrhoas, "streaming with gold," (i.e., the golden speaker). He was born and raised in Damascus, in all probability at the Monastery of Saint Sabbas (Mar Saba), South East of Jerusalem. His feast day is December 4.


Practically all the information concerning the life of John of Damascus available to us today has been through the records of John, Patriarch of Jerusalem. Though these notes have served as the single source of biographical information, dating back to the tenth century, these writings have been noted by scholars as having an exuberant lack of detail from a historical point of view and a bloated writing style.


Childhood

Although he was brought up under the Muslim rule of Damascus, this was not to affect his or his family's Christian faith or cause any grievances with the Muslim countrymen who held him in high esteem. To the extent that his father held a high hereditary public office with duties of chief financial officer for the caliph, Abdul Malekunder, apparently as head of the tax department for Syria.


When John reached the age of twenty-three, his father sought out to find a Christian tutor who could provide the best education for his children available at the time. Records show that while spending some time in the market place John's father came across several captives, imprisoned as a result of a raid for prisoners of war that had taken place in the coasts of Italy. This man, a Sicilian monk by the name of Cosmas, turned o

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