John of Damascus, St
- (c. 675-c. 749) , Syrian theologian and Doctor of the Church. A champion of image worship against the iconoclasts, he wrote the influential encyclopedic work on Christian theology The Fount of Wisdom. Feast day, 4 December.大马士革的圣约翰（约675-约749, 叙利亚神学家、教义阐明者, 作为崇拜圣像的捍卫者他坚决反对圣像破坏者, 著有影响深远的百科全书式基督教义著作《知识之源》; 宗教节日为12月4日）。