Damascene

Before we get to coat-hook-gate, my Damascene moment, a brief illustration of how bad things have got.

The celebration included a screening of a documentary on the Damascene Rose and its economic, medical, aesthetic, heritage, and cultural significance, as well as unveiling the special logo for the rose.

For years, the Damascene Sword has been featured on numerous publications, posters and special stamps related to the Fair.

B. Daley (Crestwood, NY :1998), 215. The Damascene's hymnongraphy and De fide Orthodoxa explicitly use Mary's "pre purification" as a key to understanding her absolute holiness and unsullied human nature.

Damascene woodworkers turning wood for mashrabia and hookass, 19th century.

In fact, Damascene (along with Nazianzen) serves as the source for nearly all subsequent promotion of Mary's complete holiness from her Conception by the "all pure seed" of Joachim and the womb "wider than heaven" of St. Ann.

See John Damascene, On the Holy and Glorious Dormition and Transformation of Our Lady Mary, Mother of God and Ever-Virgin by Our Holy Father John, Monk of Damascus and Son of Mansour.

St. John Damascene on Holy Images, Followed by Three Sermons on the Assumption Eng. transl. by Mary H. Allies, London, 1899.

This is especially apparent in the Fathers St. Sophronios of Jerusalem and St. John Damascene, who will be treated below in this article at the section on Church Fathers.

Veneration as a saint Icon of St. Ephrem (right), together with St. George (top) and St. John Damascene Icon of St. Ephrem Soon after Ephrem's death, legendary accounts of his life began to circulate.