Silver metal theca-reliquary with Relic of John of Damascus

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Silver metal theca-reliquary with Relic of John of Damascus + bishop authenticity document of relic (year of 1934)

Ex Ossibus - piece of saint bone.

Reliquary-theca dimension: 3.5 cm x 3 cm.

Authentic relic. All seals intact. Bishop document.

John of Damascus or John Damascene was an Arab Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist. Was born and raised in Damascus c. 675 or 676.

He is one of the Fathers of the Eastern Orthodox Church and is best known for his strong defence of icons. The Catholic Church regards him as a Doctor of the Church, often referred to as the Doctor of the Assumption due to his writings on the Assumption of Mary. He was also a prominent exponent of perichoresis, and employed the concept as a technical term to describe both the interpenetration of the divine and human natures of Christ and the relationship between the hypostases of the Trinity. John is at the end of the Patristic period of dogmatic development, and his contribution is less one of theological innovation than one of a summary of the developments of the centuries before him. In Catholic theology, he is therefore known as the "last of the Greek Fathers".

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