SAINT JOHN OF DAMASCUS  

THE WRITINGS OF SAINT JOHN OF DAMASCUS

• APOLOGIA OF ST JOHN DAMASCENE AGAINST THOSE WHO DECRY HOLY IMAGES (From St. John Damascene. On Holy Images. Translated by Mary H. Allies. London: Thomas Baker, 1898. Text Scanned by Gabriel Caswell and Dr. Stephen J. Shoemaker) 

  THREE SERMONS ON THE ASSUMPTION (From St. John Damascene. On holy images, followed by three sermons on the Assumption. Translated by Mary H. Allies. London: Thomas Baker, 1898. Text Scanned by Gabriel Caswell and Dr. Stephen J. Shoemaker) 

  EXPOSITION OF THE ORTHODOX FAITH  (From John of Damascus,  Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. Post Nicene Fathers, Schaff Edition Volume IX, Series II, Translated by The Rev. S. D. F. Salmond, D.D., F.e.I.s., Principal of the Free Church College, Aberdeen., 1898.  Text prepared by Wheaton College: Early Church Fathers)
   

  BARLAAM AND IOASAPH    ENGLISH  
  An Arabic Manuscript of this text exists in the Library of Balamand. Barlaam and Ioasaph is an edifying story from the inner land of the Ethiopians, called the Land of the Indians, thence brought to the holy city by John the Monk (an honorable man and a virtuous, of the Monastery of Saint Sabas); wherein are the lives of the famous and blessed Barlaam and Ioasaph (Translated by G.R. Woodward and H.Mattingly; Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1914. Text prepared by the Online Medieval and Classical Library). To see the illuminated Manuscript of this text in the Monastery of Balamand, click here

  Canons of St. John of Damascus (All translations of the Canons listed below are copyright to Archimandrite Ephrem ©, Monastery of Saint Andrew the First Called, Manchester, England, UK) 
  Antipascha
          First Canon for the Ascension
          Second Canon for Pentecost
          Prophet Elias
          Symeon Stylites
          Protomartyr Thekla

  ON THE TRINITY (From the end of On Heresies, Saint John of Damascus, Writings, Translated by F.H. Chase, The Father of the Church, Catholic University 1958, pp. 161-163. ).

  ANACREONTIC HYMN (A prayerful hymn of repentance by St. John Damascene. From The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets, Translation by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, London. Chapman and Hall, 1863. Text prepared by Saint Pachomius Library).

ICONS OF SAINT JOHN OF DAMASCUS

"Show me the icons that you venerate, that I may be able to understand your faith."  St. John of Damascus