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St. John Damascene, Patriarch of Antioch
He is one of the Greek founding fathers of the Church. He was born around the year 675 AD in Damascus. Between 754 and 787 he died at Sheba
Monastery near Jerusalem. He concludes the time of the patriarchs of orthodoxy and dogmatic systematisation. John Damascene is considered an important hymn writer and mystic. He is the
theological founder of the Orthodox "picture service", iconography and the icon (the veneration of the represented personality, the image of the archetype =Jesus Christ = likeness of
God) With the Seventh Ecumenical Council of Nicaea and the Council of Constantinople in 843 AD the icon was accepted into the Christian Church.
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